[X-Unix] sudo -s behavior changed in 10.5?

[John Baltutis]

On 02/22/08, Phillip Burk <philburk at mac.com> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Eric F Crist wrote:
>
>> It may be something in your setup - it works fine for me.
>
> OK, then, which files should I be checking?  The only ones associated
> with the shell (bash) environment that I know of are /etc/profile, /
> etc/bashrc, /etc/sudoers and /etc/environment.  /etc/environment
> doesn't exist and editing the others seems to have no effect whatsoever.
>
> It's definitely a puzzle and it affects both the imaged 10.5.2
> machines at my office as well as my personal 10.5.2 Mac Book Pro that
> was not imaged but rather manually installed.

I set up everything in ~.bash_profile (creating it, if it doesn't exist).