topic su - in Operating System - HP-UX

su -

Faizer Jameel — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:30:23 GMT

Gentlemen
How can I force users to use the su with the "-" instead of just su.
as I do dot want the new shell to starts as if a subshell was invoked.
Thanks
Faizer

Re: su -

MarkSyder — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:33:31 GMT

How about putting an alias in their profile?

alias su="su -"

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: su -

sudhapage — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:39:10 GMT

Yes alias is the best way to do it.

Regards,
Sudhakaran.K

Re: su -

spex — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:24:48 GMT

Hi Faizer,

Of course, if you go the alias route, there's nothing preventing your users from doing an 'unalias su', or from '/usr/bin/su - '.

PCS

Re: su -

KapilRaj — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:10:24 GMT

I would , set an alias and will not tell them ;)

OR

I would have /usr/mybin in the user's PATH before /usr/bin and will have a shell script named su which will do /usr/bin/su -

OR

Will change the password. and set up sudo for the same.

Re: su -

Faizer Jameel — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:49:11 GMT

Thankyou.... all are workable solutions which I have tried. These are working.
Thanks allround.

PS. My apologies...I should have not have addressed thread specific to a Gender group.