From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 5 03:52:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA19343 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 03:52:00 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA19334 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 03:51:20 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA11901 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:51:11 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA23349 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:51:11 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA01018 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:17:03 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509051017.MAA01018@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Change in behaviour of SU... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:17:03 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199509050315.WAA00460@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Sep 4, 95 10:15:07 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 504 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Peter da Silva wrote: > > In 1.1.5.1, the command "su" passed extra arguments to the shell. In 2.0.5, > this is disabled. Howcome? I have several scripts that need to start various > programs as particular users, so I've been using "su user -c command". What > is the recommended alternative? 1.) re-import it from 1.1.5.1, or 2.) echo command | su user -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)