On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 8:19 PM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 07:58:12PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 May 2022 10:17:06 -0500
> > Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> > > I'm using Debian 10.7 with MATE DE [will be updated later this week]
> > > The machine is a Lenovo T510 and is setup to login as either "richard"
> > > or "root".
> > >
> > > If logged in as "richard" I can execute su {+ password} and receive a
> > > prompt indicating I'm "root".
> > >
> > > However if I then enter "update-grub", the response is
> > > "bash: update-grub: command not found"
> > > as if I were the unprivileged user "richard".
> >
> > you need to do
> >
> > # su -
> >
> > (instead of just
> >
> > # su
> > ),
> > otherwise $PATH will be inherited from user "richard" and thus lack the
> > entry "/sbin".
>
> Or just get used to say "/sbin/update-grub" ;-)
>
> (No, I'm not really being serious here. But half-acquiring this
> habit would have helped you to unravel the problem like in "Ah,
> I have the permissions but not the $PATH..."
On this note, I've always found it annoying that debian (and likely
others) don't put /sbin in the normal user's $PATH. A lot of the tools
there have uses other than modifying the system.
