Why The. Bashrc File Is Not Invoked After a Sudo Command?
I Switch to Another User Using the Command: Sudo -U Dsc -I After the Command Executions Moves to the Home Directory /Home/Dsc. However, The. Bashrc File in...
I switch to another user using the command:
sudo -u dsc -i
After the command executions moves to the home directory /home/dsc .
However, the .bashrc file in this directory is not executed. Why this happens?
2 Answers
sudo -i starts a login shell; .bashrc is only executed for non-login interactive shells. One of .bash_profile, .bash_login, or .profile should have been executed, though.
I noticed that su -l as well as sudo -i was indeed not loading the .bashrc file.
However, after I added a .profile file (in this case at /root/.profile) that loads the .bashrc file when present, everything works fine
# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc"
fi
fi
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