On Monday 31 March 2003 10:54, William Hubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a way to get sudo to run a shell with the -s option as a login > shell? I ask because when I give the command > > sudo -s > > and enter a password, I become root, but not with root's environment, so > /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc, are not in the path. >
sudo sh --login (-l [DASH EL] is a synonym for --login) This will cause sh to source ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile, etc. and set up your environment. On my systems, I've set an alias: alias sudo='sudo -H' The -H option sets $HOME to the target user's home path. This is important when running programs that might create root-owned settings files in your $HOME directory tree (Midnight Commander in particular). -- D. Wollmann gpg 58A7 2C9A FCBC 8B4A 6F76 1BF1 9BE0 FB93 34C8 8A21
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