On 07/15/15 21:50, Dan LaBell wrote:
On Jul 15, 2015, at 5:29 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:On 07/15/15 12:24, Greg Troxel wrote:"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> writes:Following recommendations I now login to root by su, rather than directly at the console. When I do, none of my aliases get set & filename completion using the tab key doesn't work.man su, see -m install and then man sudo, see -E I use "sudo -E $(SHELL)", more or less, to get a shell that's just like mine, but with uid 0.I think this has to be a typo, command substitution is not warranted $SHELL or ${SHELL} is what's meant, also I think, you just try '-l' w/ su , or "sue tack el". and not "Install, [and configure], and then man sudo "You're the only admin for this system? Sudo would have use your user login password to get root, not root's password.
Yes, just me, myself & I ....
Also, I'd recommend against "su -m" "leaving environment unchanged." I'd say remember that exists, to rescue a broken .profile etc, but avoidhabitual use, and just change the directory, after becoming root.You want your profile read, right? Not changes to PATH, etc done at command line?
Yes to both of the last questions. I went to 'su -' & everything mostly works. I also recall from last year, messing around w/ NetBSD on my RPi-B+ time server, that rxvt (what I usually use on this box, FreeBSD 9.3R-p13) has some issues when ssh-ing into NetBSD. When I switch to an xterm, everything behaves much better, which I am now doing. Thanks :-).
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