Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!censor!meadow!py
From: py@meadow.uucp (Peter Yeung)
Subject: Re: default search path for root
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.151703.15764@meadow.uucp>
Keywords: search path
Reply-To: py@meadow.UUCP (Peter Yeung)
Organization: Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
References: <1991Jan1.211651.29973@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <384@xdave.rni.sub.org> <1991Jan15.135828.27402@erbe.se>
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 91 15:17:03 GMT

In article <1991Jan15.135828.27402@erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
>
>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.
>

/etc/default/su is in our AT&T System V 3.2 system for the 386 AT&T box.
However, it is not in our Motorola system though. I think it depends on
whoever was porting it. We were told by an AT&T rep that many vendors
do trim down the system when they port it. An example is the "layer"
program which allows the user to run multiple windows on an AT&T 630
terminal, most vendors chose not to port it since not too many people
use the AT&T 630 terminal.

>-- 
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