From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 9 11:50:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA29215 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 11:50:03 -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 LAA29198 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 11:49:20 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA09167; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 20:48:40 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id UAA07951 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 20:48:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA07493 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 18:52:43 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504091652.SAA07493@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: should su retain ${DISPLAY} To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 18:52:42 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <13777.797419380@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 9, 95 02:23:00 am 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: 547 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Your right, it should completely reset the environment as if it was a fresh > > login. Speaking of su, why the hell doesnt FreeBSD's su support -c cmd like > > every other su on the planet? > > Hmmmm. Therein lies a mystery! > > I believe we lost this in the 1.x transition! :-( We've never had it. The word `every' in the above sentence must be `every second'. -- 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. ;-)