I seem to be having a problem with the PATH set for root in the konsole in KDE. It's now set as /bin:/usr/bin (note no reference to /sbin or whatever). When using a console login outside of KDE PATH is set correctly...it's only in KDE AFAIK. I first noticed it on June 7th after emerging the new glibc and KDE's and I have re-installed completely from scratch since then and the problem is still there.
are you using "su -" to change to superuser?
I'm using 'su' - it always worked before...now things like rc-update are not in my path when I su.
From the su manpage: The current environment is passed to the new shell. The value of $PATH is reset to /bin:/usr/bin for normal users, or /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin for the super user. This may be changed with the ENV_PATH and ENV_SUPATH definitions in /etc/login.defs. Now, our login.defs has ENV_PATH and ENV_ROOTPATH, where ENV_ROOTPATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin. I copied this setting to an ENV_SUPATH= line, and su root now gives this as the path. This creates a new problem though: bug #3147. The error mentioned there is not fatal though, I can still login, but it's not pretty either. Azarah: any suggestions? This isn't exactly my home ground...
> From the su manpage: > The current environment is passed to the new shell. The value of $PATH is > reset to /bin:/usr/bin for normal users, or /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > for the super user. This may be changed with the ENV_PATH and ENV_SUPATH > definitions in /etc/login.defs. > Now, our login.defs has ENV_PATH and ENV_ROOTPATH (..) well this doesn't work correctly neither under gnome-terminal nor text console - seem like `su` treats root as usual user and sets $PATH to /bin:/usr/bin i added ENV_SUPATH to /etc/login.defs and it helped, but it's dirty - `su` now sets root $PATH as i should (/sbin...), but login process gives a warning: "configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_SUPATH' (notify administrator)" every time new user tries to log on (this shows up only on tex console, i guess X teminals hide warnings)
pam-login-3.6-r2 should fix this, try and give me a shout.
Just upgraded to pam-login-3.6-r2 and PATH is correctly set as /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin after su in both the KDE konsole and after login as a normal user then 'su' in a CLI session. It looks like it's fixed. I didn't get any odd error message in either case.
confirmed, works fine under gnome-terminal and text console after upgrading pam-login. guess you can mark it FIXED ;) regards, artb.
Great, thanks.
Hello everyone! It seems to be not real solved, because su uses another $PATH then the one defined in /etc/profile. So it is different to the one, which is set by env-update. If I login as root directly, I get the right $PATH including the $ROOTPATH. But not with su. But this behaviour seems to be independed from Konsole or the normal shell.
