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[dan@radom.org]

Doesn't anyone every use sudo anymore?  I can't live without it!

> On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 12:16:29PM -0600, John Starkey wrote:
> >So how do I find out what commands are available to su root?? And I did
> >just look at the man su page. And I tried su -m to see if by retaining the
> >env variables I could use root commands.
> 
> I presume you are talking about the commands which reside in /usr/sbin and
> /sbin?  Things like ifconfig, useradd, route, mtr...  /sbin and /usr/sbin
> contain programs which are largely meant for the system administrator,
> and often require root privelages to run.  However, there are some programs
> in there that it's nice to run as a regular user (ifconfig and route
> without any options, mtr, etc).
> 
> I put ":/usr/sbin:/sbin" at the end of my PATH, so I don't constantly have
> to be adding a prefix to some of the commands I do regularly.
> 
> As far as su, unless you use the "-" option, it keeps your current environment.
> This means that if you log in as yourself and su to root, you don't get
> /sbin and /usr/sbin in your path, even though you're root.  If you log in
> directly as root, you do.  "su -" acts like you've logged in as that user,
> so you should get the typical root PATH and other settings.
> 
> With /sbin:/usr/sbin in my path, I don't ever need to do "su -" to get to
> root.  I often use it when switching to another user though.