CentOS - Jul 2012 - su path hard coded?

Is there any way of changing the PATH that's set by 'su' to be
specific
to my needs?   It looks like 'su' has the path's hard coded.

% rpm -qf /bin/su
coreutils-5.97-34.el5_8.1

% strings /bin/su | grep local.bin
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

I could kludge it with pam_env, I guess, but that may have
more impact than just 'su' and I'd like to avoid side-effects.

Thanks!
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rgds
Stephen

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>
wrote:
> Is there any way of changing the PATH that's set by 'su' to be
specific
> to my needs?   It looks like 'su' has the path's hard coded.
>
> % rpm -qf /bin/su
> coreutils-5.97-34.el5_8.1
>
> % strings /bin/su | grep local.bin
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
>
> I could kludge it with pam_env, I guess, but that may have
> more impact than just 'su' and I'd like to avoid side-effects.
Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target
user's login environment?

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   Les Mikesell
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