On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:31 +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Patrick Shanahan wrote
> 
> > * Frank Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-28-06 10:58]:
> >> You can activate it for normal users (and/or root) via
> >> /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig We have it for normal users, but I want it
> >> to disappear when I su, like it happend with SuSE 9.0.
> > 
> > Then add "." to $PATH via the user's .profile or .bashrc, and root will
> > not know about it.
> 
> He will, that's the point actually: when su'ing to root, the current
> PATH is kept!

Which is the correct way that it works. If you want to use root's env
when you su then you need to use "su -". su without the "-" means to use
the current user env (including $PATH).

>  It's not resetted anymore,

Never was, even in 9.0. If you check the login var's you'll find it
probably never was set for anyone from the start which is the default at
install time.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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