There are lots of ways to get the setup you personally require for a bash session. Check out ~./profile -- the last file to be read and executed if it exists. It will override existing aliases with a new alias command. Read the 3 short sections first. Then try a change.
Thanks! I'll take a look at that.
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Originally Posted by bakunin
First off: if they are his aliases and are not necessary for the working of the system as a whole they have no business being there. They should go to his profile, rc-script or whatever he uses to configure his session. I would make that absolutely clear to him in your position.
This is something that always put me off on Linux systems: instead of putting what is absolutely necessary into the systems configuration and letting everybody take it from there Linux distributions have usually some guy force what he thinks is fine onto the whole world.
Using sudo you can find out "where you came from", that is: which user you used to switch into that UID. This way you could set up some mechanism which one (out of several) configurations to apply, as RudiC already hinted at. (Again: only, if his configuration is not mixed up with the systems configuration, so no putting what belongs to /home/<someuser>/.bashrc into /etc/bashrc (or similarily general configuration scripts.)
Second: you can use the "SETENV:" and "NOSETENV:" directives in /etc/sudoers and their respective commandline equivalents ("-E", etc.) for sudo.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
Thank you, I agree with you. This guy is a special breed, thinks he's gods gift to sys admins. His way or the highway. When I first started my instinct was to fight it. Now I find it just easier to just let his thing, and just find ways around it. I may be putting my foot down on this one though. Thanks for the good info.
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Originally Posted by RudiC
sudoing to root, I find the SUDO_USER=myusername variable in the new environment.
Using your sudo su -, I find
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