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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: should su retain ${DISPLAY}
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 18:12:05 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199504091652.SAA07493@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 9, 95 06:52:42 pm
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> > > 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'.

bonkers% su root -c who
Password:
root     ttyv0   Mar 21 19:12
peter    ttyv1   Mar 21 19:13
arielle  tty03   Mar 22 07:37
arielle  ttyp1   Apr  9 14:14   (:0.0)
arielle  ttyp2   Apr  9 14:19   (:0.0)
peter    ttyp3   Apr  9 12:36   (:1.0)
peter    ttyp4   Apr  9 05:42   (:1.0)
bonkers% uname -a
FreeBSD bonkers.taronga.com 1.1.5.1(RELEASE) BONKERS#22 i386