Re: handling of PATH, between "su - user" and "sudo --login -u user"

This is CentOS 7 (equivalent of RHEL 7), it does not have any rc scripts. The account "oracle" (maybe it was a bad example) had no additional configuration in its .bashrc,  .bash_profile or /etc/profile.d/*.sh files

I can reproduce the issue with another account, testing from root

[23:27|root@gbjh:~]# su - test
[23:28|test@gbjh:~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/test/.local/bin:/home/test/bin

This is expected behaviour, but

[23:28|root@gbjh:~]# sudo --login -u test
[23:28|test@gbjh:~]$ echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/test/.local/bin:/home/test/bin
^^^^^ This is should be /usr/local/bin

My only alternative is something like
[23:37|root@gbjh:~]# sudo su - test
[23:37|scobrin@gbjh:~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/test/.local/bin:/home/test/bin

But that would require a less safe configuration in the sudoers, the creation of more processes, and the --login option should not mess with the PATH, what am I missing?

-- Steve 

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