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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:38:18 +0100 (MET)
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, markm@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/su su.c
Message-ID:  <199603120738.IAA01213@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199603120559.HAA06555@grumble.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Mar 12, 96 07:59:49 am"

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It seems that Mark Murray said:
> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > Actually, while you're hacking su, any chance of seeing the -c <cmd>
> > feature come back?  We used to have it (I know, I committed it myself)
> > then somebody blew it away somewhere along the line.
> 
> Sure! I remember this. Long time back - 1.1 days?

Uh Jordan & Mark ? 

------------------------------------------------------------
revision 1.9
date: 1995/09/06 12:38:53;  author: joerg;  state: Exp;  lines: +22 -8
Bring Barry Morris' changes from FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 back: pass arguments
to the target login's shell.  This allows for "su -c".

Do it right this time and also explain this behaviour in the man
page. :)

Obtained from:  bsm's work in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
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199 [8:37] root@keltia:usr.bin/su# su news -c id
uid=8(news) gid=8(news) groups=8(news)

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Mon Mar 11 20:18:10 MET 1996



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