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Re: su 5.2.1 does not invoke bash as a login shell when stdin is from a
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Eric Blake |
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Re: su 5.2.1 does not invoke bash as a login shell when stdin is from a pipe |
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Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:51:40 -0600 |
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Keeping replies on the list will help future searchers find an answer to
this question.
According to Angel Tsankov on 9/9/2006 12:42 PM:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>
>> That said, there has been talk in the coreutils mailing list of removing
>> support for su, as other open source packages provide su implementations
>> with more features.
>
> Could you please, specify some of these packages?
Debian uses the shadow password suite, mentioned in this list just last week:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00342.html
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