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thomasdideriksen
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Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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Location: Denmark
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: whoami and USER disagree |
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After an "emerge --update world --deep" I experience a strange problem:
When I log into my root account using "su", the USER environment variable somehow fails to update:
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thomas@krakatau64:~> su
Password:
krakatau64 thomas # whoami
root
krakatau64 thomas # echo $USER
thomas
krakatau64 thomas #
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It is annoying, because the PATH env. variable depends on the USER env. variable... Thus, /sbin is not included in the PATH for the root-user (I know this is a minor issue, but anyway...)
Does anyone know how to solve this matter? |
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msalerno
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Joined: 17 Dec 2002
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Location: Sweating in South Florida
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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When doing an "su" use
# su -
man su:
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The optional argument - may be used to provide an environment similiar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly.
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thomasdideriksen
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Location: Denmark
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject: thanks! |
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Thanks! ... I didn't know that option...  |
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