[sudo-users] Question: pathing

[Mark Janssen]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:22 PM,  <Rick_Steele at oxy.com> wrote:
> Has anybody run into a case where after one switch users (su - xxxx), pathing no longer works?
>
> oholert2:codadm 1> sudo lsof | wc -l
> 7812
> oholert2:codadm 2> su - steeler
> Password:
> [steeler at oholert2 ~]$ sudo lsof | wc -l
> Password:
> sudo: lsof: command not found
> 0

"su - <someuser> uses the profile/path etc from the user you are su-ing to.
Try a 'su <someuser>' to keep your own environment.

Sudo doesn't have any influence here

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