On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 03:28:33PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:50:41 +0200 > Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been trying to install 10.0 via netinst. <SNIP> but it also has > > some funny behavior, like not adding /sbin to the PATH after a > > successful su command. > > How are you calling su? If you just call su with no options, it simply > changes the user, and nothing else, leaving you in the environment of > the previous user. > > To get the environment of the new user, run 'su - [user]'. > > As usual, 'man su' for the gory details.
This is a change in buster. It's documented on the Debian wiki at <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster#Changes> where you can see several different options for working around the change. Personally, I find that none of the workarounds is perfect, but the one that involves putting ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes in /etc/login.defs is the least terrible. Your opinion may differ.
