On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:27:09PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
On 07/24/12 4:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
S> I want the ability to "set the default path". That's all.
It sounds like your best bet would be to change the source for su, and just be prepared to reinstall it if/when yum (or whatever) replaces it.
Being able to specify the default PATH without having to mess with shell setup files is a nice feature; Solaris allows you to do this by providing an /etc/default/su file to set the PATH plus other things like whether you want to use syslog for access logging, etc.
Yeah, that's the functionality I was hoping to be able to replicate. Seems like an odd RedHat restriction, especially since other Linux variants can do this via login.defs. Ah well.
I guess I'll have to live with it.
Thanks!