Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:52:25 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@mecon.gov.ar> Cc: Brandon Grace <brandon.grace@ntscom.com> Subject: Re: Root users shell == no existant shell /bin/bash Message-ID: <20040708195225.GB761@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040708155519.GH1169@bal740r0.mecon.gov.ar> References: <20040708153848.GF1169@bal740r0.mecon.gov.ar> <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAQalskDVfo0WQ/a0WxfyYA8KAAAAQAAAAf2nUAULtfUGYmBzHXriA/AEAAAAA@ntscom.com> <20040708155519.GH1169@bal740r0.mecon.gov.ar>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
[-- Attachment #1 --] [Please don't top post...] On 2004.07.08 12:55:19 -0300, Fernando Schapachnik wrote: > En un mensaje anterior, Brandon Grace escribió: > > For some reason su -c relates to "class" not "command" as in linux. I know > > about the booting into single user mode also. This happends to be the > > primary dns server and our secondary doesn't have the capacity to handle all > > the queries. Any other suggestions? > > Looks like a bug in the man page: > > su - root -c id > Password: ******** > uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 5(operator), > 20(staff), 31(guest) No the manual page is correct; what's happening here is that su handles the "- root" arguments, and "-c id" is being passed to root's login shell where -c tells the shell to run the rest of the arguments as run commands. That is, at least the behavior of -c both for sh and tcsh. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA7aX5h9pcDSc1mlERAj1hAKCYFsSlhUo82ag6dDkYMDdNjWv9RQCfc9fu e1do5aGo8/wXPj5mxxAlE4I= =39d9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040708195225.GB761>