Fwd: Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Rashkae wrote:

> No, but -p preserves $HOME

   Right, as USER and HOME are generally not redefined in system wide login scripts.
   If you add in /etc/profile
     USER=`whoami`
     eval HOME=~$USER

    you get the good login scripts.

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Pierre Frenkiel