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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: No su -c Date: 22 Apr 1996 06:24:14 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4lf8me$hmg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1436504362@f401.n711.z3.ftn> <4l83sb$65i@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4l937n$smu@vanbc.wimsey.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders) writes: >It doesn't appear to work even when used properly. >FreeBSD is the first unix I've used where su user -c didn't work. It's plain 4.4BSD su that didn't work. :) It was not working this way in FreeBSD < 1.1.5.1, and FreeBSD 2.0 and 2.0.5. I've moved the 1.1.5.1 change over to the v2 source tree on 1995/09/06 12:38:53. Unlike in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, i've also explained the behaviour in the man page. (NB: it does _not_ appear in the options overview, since it ain't an option to su itself. But it's shown in the EXAMPLES section.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)