On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:35:32 +0300, Reco wrote:
rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ suDon't. Do. That. Ever.
That’s bullshit. I did it all the time until Debian decided to break things.
I never had your mentioned problems.„su” doesn’t change the working directory. So if you compile software as a user you can then type „make install” after su. Now it is simpler to compile as root user.
If you need to run an X11 program as root su preserved the DISPLAY variable.
Luckily you can switch back to the old behaviour, but this should be the default. As Linus would say: „Don’t break user behaviour! Give them an option to switch to a new one.”.
Shade and sweet water!
Stephan
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