su'ing not sourcing .bash_profile

Peter Cornelius pcc at gmx.net
Fri Apr 24 20:34:50 UTC 2009


Hi,

> > When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by
> > entering "su" and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt
> > does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile

> Because .bash_profile is only seen on login, not on 'su'.  Put
> it in .bashrc which is read when the shell is invoked.

su -

maybe? If you can live with ending up in ~root/, of course ;-)

Rgds.,

Peter.
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