[sudo-users] sudo -i (simulate initial login)

Peter Vrabec pvrabec at redhat.com
Tue Aug 29 05:12:36 EDT 2006


Hi,

shouldn't "$ sudo -i" reset PATH variable, since it suppose to simulate
initial login shell.

$ echo $PATH
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/home/peter/bin:/usr/sbin/:/sbin
$ export PATH="$PATH:/foo"
$ sudo -i
Password:
# echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/home/peter/bin:/usr/sbin/:/sbin:/foo:/root/bin




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