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From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: su broken?
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 Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 19:21:20, rb (Bob Bishop) wrote about "su broken?": 

> su appears to be asking for a password when invoked by root, eg:
> 
> # su bin -c "pwd"
> Password:

root@iv:~##su bin -c pwd
This account is currently not available.
root@iv:~##su -m bin -c pwd
/root

> Broken, surely?

root@iv:~##ident /usr/bin/su
/usr/bin/su:
     $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/su/su.c,v 1.39 2001/05/26 09:52:36 markm Exp $

And what is of yours?


/netch

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