From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 6 14:15:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11343 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 14:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11334 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 14:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA01101; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:15:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199610062115.XAA01101@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: su problem In-Reply-To: <199610061403.QAA07991@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "6. Oct. 96 16:03:22" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:15:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > su -l hasty > > > > it gets a core dump... > > Analyze it. That's what coredumps are for. > > Are you sure that it's not actually > > su -l hasty -c "" It would be nice if this would work. I was searching for that feature since the time I changed from SysVr3.2 to FreeBSD. (And it's not in the manpage.) Is the missing ability to execute commands like sh BSD-specific or a security precaution ? Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de