changing su configuration

Is there anyway to make "su -" stop changing into roots directory.
Whenever I am working on a file that requires root permissions and or
things in roots path I su -. But I always have to cd back to the
directory I want to work in. It is really annoying me.
How do I stop su from changing to roots directory?
Thanks

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:50:28 -0400, Tommy M wrote:
> Is there anyway to make "su -" stop changing into roots directory.
> Whenever I am working on a file that requires root permissions and or
> things in roots path I su -. But I always have to cd back to the
> directory I want to work in. It is really annoying me.
> How do I stop su from changing to roots directory?

By not adding a '-' to the 'su' command.

Bjørn
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But the $PATH is not the same. I only want to stop the cd


[tom@lugh tom]$ su
Password:
[root@lugh tom]# echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/tom/bin

[tom@lugh tom]$ su -
Password:
[root@lugh root]# echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:10:14 +0000, Bjørn Tore Sund wrote:
>
> By not adding a '-' to the 'su' command.
>
> Bjørn

Tommy M finally wrote on Tue October 12 2004 10:50 am:

> Is there anyway to make "su -" stop changing into roots directory.
> Whenever I am working on a file that requires root permissions and or
> things in roots path I su -. But I always have to cd back to the
> directory I want to work in. It is really annoying me.
> How do I stop su from changing to roots directory?
> Thanks

Well, I suppose there are a few solutions. The first I came up with was a
quick and dirty script:

su- (or whatever you want the command to be,ssu,suu,qsu, etc. :})
#!/bin/sh

CURD=`pwd`
su -
cd $CURD

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Also, after doing 'man su' - I found something you may want to check out:
the ENV_SUPATH option in login.defs. That may be easier.


-jab3

jab3 finally wrote on Tue October 12 2004 01:58 pm:

> Well, I suppose there are a few solutions. The first I came up with was a
> quick and dirty script:
>
> su- (or whatever you want the command to be,ssu,suu,qsu, etc. :})
> #!/bin/sh
>
> CURD=`pwd`
> su -
> cd $CURD
>

You can safely ignore that, as you have probably already figured out. I
wasn't thinking about what I was doing. Once 'su -' happens, there is no
current script :). I'm an idiot.


-jab3