On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 13:58:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:48:35 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It could be argued that it would be simple enough to communicate > > the user's cwd to root, as a workaround, so that it didn't have to > > be retyped. > > You know what does that for you? sudo -s. Or su if you've configured > it with a one-line config file.
Excellent, that solves the problem for those on old terminals or lacking copy/paste. As for me, I'll continue to use /bin/su --login, as I have for nigh on three decades, so that I land in my preferred, consistent cwd, /root. Cheers, David.
