== An annoyance with $PATH on Red Hat

In the spirit of [[equal opportunity annoyance ../solaris/SolarisPATH]]:

One of the things that never fails to irritate me with Red Hat is that
when you do '_[[/bin/su ../sysadmin/ASysadminTwitch]] root_' on a
stock system, you get a shell whose $PATH doesn't include _/sbin_ or
_/usr/sbin_.

This trips me up all the time, and every time it's an *nngh* moment. And
it's not as if Red Hat doesn't already have a _~root/.bashrc_ that does
quite a lot, so they could perfectly well also have it fix up $PATH to
have everything it would if you just logged in as root.

(Yes, yes, 'use sudo'. Frankly, no; if I'm starting up a general root
shell, I'm going to be honest about it. And I don't like '_su - root_',
because that has other effects.)

On my own systems, I've long since customized root's _.bashrc_
so that when I _su_, it switches to [[my preferred shell
../sysadmin/NonstandardShellAdvantage]]; other bits then insure that I
get a sensible root environment (including sanitizing $PATH). This may
be evil, but it is convenient.

(There's an argument that Red Hat's default root .bashrc is already evil
since it aliases _cp_, _mv_, and _rm_ to their _-i_ forms, but I'm not
going to go there. Especially since I do it myself.)

=== Sidebar: a pop usage conundrum

In the above, is the right usage '~~a~~ *nngh* moment' or '~~an~~ *nngh*
moment'?