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Running user .profile when su user

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Pacifica

Pacifica

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Nov 23, 2002
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Solaris9

Is there a way to get a user's .profile file to run
when you su to the user?
 
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I looked at the previous post and a suggestion is to use :

su - user name

but I couldn't get this to work on Solaris

maybe I'm not understanding the syntax
 
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su - <username> should work. Can you echo your $PATH once you've su'd and check it against the one in .profile? Cheers.
 
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