On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: > Is there any way of changing the PATH that's set by 'su' to be specific > to my needs? It looks like 'su' has the path's hard coded. > > % rpm -qf /bin/su > coreutils-5.97-34.el5_8.1 > > % strings /bin/su | grep local.bin > /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin > > I could kludge it with pam_env, I guess, but that may have > more impact than just 'su' and I'd like to avoid side-effects. Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target user's login environment? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com