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! -- rgds Stephen