Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 03:44:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: su problem Message-ID: <199610070144.DAA02647@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <199610070112.KAA28805@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "7. Oct. 96 10:40:08"
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> Robert Eckardt stands accused of saying:
[..]
> > > su -l hasty -c "<something>"
> >
> > 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 ?
>
> It's not missing. We do a bunch of :
Ok, I cancel and declare the opposite. :-)
I tested this with every system/version and it worked everywhere
except on FreeBSD.
Q: Why ?
A: I use /bin/sh as login shell (for historical reasons :-) and call
in .profile:
[...]
tcsh
exit
As long as sh is invoked as sh it works fine, however, if called
as -sh it reads the profiles and does not execute the script.
`su -l <user>' calls sh as login shell, i.e. as -sh.
(The SysV-syntax allowed more freedom: I could call it as
`su - user script' == `su -l user script'
or `su user script' no equivalent in (Free|*?)BSD
BTW, other systems allow user USER-A to call `su [-l] USER-B script' w/o PW
if( USER-A == USER-B || USER-A == root).
( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bug or feature ? :-)
Thanks,
Robert
--
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