[CentOS] su path hard coded?

Mon Jul 23 19:37:50 UTC 2012
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:33:17PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target
> >> user's login environment?
> >
> > It's "su -" that causes the 'su' comman to rewrite the PATH to the
> > hardcoded default.
> >
> 
> But it should be executing the target user's .profile which can
> override it.   '-' should be a synonym for -l or --login.

You've missed the point.  I want the ability to set the default path on
'su -' to be /bin:/usr/bin and then let the users override if they wish.
I do not want the default path to be /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

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rgds
Stephen