Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

[Greg Schafer]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> i believe Debian/Ubuntu use su from coreutils .
> 
> Nope, they use shadow; /bin/su on Debian stable comes from shadow
> 4.0.3, and testing and unstable come from 4.0.18.1.  I don't know of
> any distribution using coreutils su now.  (Not that I keep track of
> all this stuff....)

When I last looked into it (12 mths ago) Red Hat/Fedora were using su from
coreutils (albeit patched to make it PAM-aware) while Debian were using su
from shadow.

Personally, I prefer the coreutils version due to some subtle differences
in behavior. More background here:

http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2005-August/000610.html

Regards
Greg