su -

[Faizer Jameel]

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

[MarkSyder · Accepted solution]

How about putting an alias in their profile?

alias su="su -"

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[sudhapage]

Yes alias is the best way to do it.

Regards,
Sudhakaran.K

[spex]

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

[KapilRaj]

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.

[Faizer Jameel]

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.