Bug#904988: /bin/su does not set $PATH

2018-08-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
>The problem is still that we need to choose between preserving >old Debian behaviour or being in line with how every other >distribution works. We can patch the defaults in debian, but do we >want to be different? If we can't be different, but have to do everywhere the same as everyone else,... w

Bug#904988: /bin/su does not set $PATH

2018-08-03 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 09:16:45 +0200 Andreas Henriksson wrote: > You'll be happy to see that a NEWS entry has already been added for > this, see: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux/commit/ b95fbe9d79173058204e226531f4b1f9ad2f26f7 > I was also surprised by this new behavior. I liked becom

Bug#904988: /bin/su does not set $PATH

2018-08-03 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Ian Bruce, On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 10:19:32PM -0700, ian_br...@mail.ru wrote: > wrote: > > > I thought I (or something) had hosed my system, but it turns out this > > change is by design. > > That was exactly my reaction. I don't think that it's acceptable to have > a major (unannounced)

Bug#904988: /bin/su does not set $PATH

2018-08-02 Thread ian_bruce
wrote: > I thought I (or something) had hosed my system, but it turns out this > change is by design. That was exactly my reaction. I don't think that it's acceptable to have a major (unannounced) change in behaviour for an essential system utility like "/bin/su". some discussion here: https:/