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Re: strange behaviour with .zsh and su

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier+/news/lists/zsh/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: strange behaviour with .zsh and su
Date: 14 Apr 1997 13:03:22 -0400
References: <19970414103243.56053@retriever>
Sender: monnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Louis-David Mitterrand <mito@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> user but now when I 'su' to root from that account root's .zshrc isn't
> sourced anymore even though I put root's .zshrc into its own ZDOTDIR...

"su" generally doesn't start the shell as a login shell, so your /etc/zprofile
is not sourced. You probably want to use "su -" instead.

        Stefan

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