On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessduck@??? wrote:
> I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and has no GUI installed.
>
> I notice when I login to root with “su” the $PATH doesn’t contain any sbin folders, only bin. If I login to root with “su -“ then the $PATH is as expected.
>
> I don’t notice this happening on any ascii installs. Is there something new in beowulf/buster default configuration?
>

Hi Tom,

I upgraded to Beowulf several months ago and didn't notice any issue
with su. You might want to check whether you have changed ENV_SUPATH
in /etc/login.defs by any chance, or if you have a custom .bashrc in
/root which resets PATH?

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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