From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 8 06:47:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA14633 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 06:47:35 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA14625 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 06:47:05 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA12343; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 15:46:29 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id PAA29728 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 15:46:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA00343 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 15:44:00 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504081344.PAA00343@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: should su retain ${DISPLAY} To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 15:44:00 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) 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: 309 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What do people think about an extension to the su(1) command that retains the ${DISPLAY} variable even across an ``su -''? Seen on IRIX, think it's nice to have it. -- 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. ;-)