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I am having a hard time with root

whenever i run sudo su and then nano ~/.zshrc, edit my file to add PATHs followed by a source ~/.zshrc, it works just fine.

That until i run sudo su myuser to go back to my default user.

When i do that all my previous settings on root are undone, and if i go back and check ~/.zshrc it has no PATHs configured and doesnt work as intented.

Does anyone know why this happens? And how to fix it?

Cyrus
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The problem you're having, is that ~ resolves to the home directory for the current user. So when logged in as root, ~ points to root's home directory (usually at /root), whereas for myuser, ~ points at myuser's home directory (usually /home/myuser), so you're actually editing different files.

James Dinsdale
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