Re: Switching user and environment variables to root to install packages

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 07:26:11PM +0200, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> Really?

really.  try it yourself and/or check the man page.  Do a "su -" and
check the environment using env.

> After "su -" with root password the installation of a package worked, so 
> maybe the variables were inherited.
>

they shouldn't be - perhaps it just works without them or you have
inserted them into root's environment another way.

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