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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
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Subject: Re: default search path for root
Keywords: search path
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.135828.27402@erbe.se>
Date: 15 Jan 91 13:58:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan1.211651.29973@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <384@xdave.rni.sub.org>
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In article <384@xdave.rni.sub.org>, torsten@xdave.rni.sub.org (Torsten Leibold) writes:

|> Sorry, I can't tell you for SunOS, but I know that information for
|> SysV, especially for SCO Xenix & Unix.
|> The PATH for su is defined in the text file /etc/default/su which
|> normally is absent.

I think that this scheme is specific to SCO's products. At least, I have
never seen it in UNIX products from other vendors, including AT&T.

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