2015/09/01 1:27 "Jonathan de Boyne Pollard" < j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com>: > > Christian Seiler: >> >> Note that _nobody_ working on su, neither upstream nor maintaining it in distributions, has claimed that they will stop. > > > Indeed. The implication that su is being replaced has, rather, come from the technology journalists and web log diarists writing headlines ... > > * Paul Carroty's piece referenced from this thread: "... 'su' command replacement ..." > * Sam Varghese in ITWire: "Systemd's latest conquest: the 'su' command" and "It remains to be seen which other functions systemd will seek to take over. " in the body > * Softpedia: "systemd 225 Adds 'su' Replacement" with "'machinectl shell' is the new 'su' replacement in systemd" as the subtitle > * Lukáš Jelínek in LinuxExpress: "Funkcionalita příkazu 'su' začleněna do systemd" > * Petr Krčmář in root.cz: "Do systemd je integrována náhrada za 'su'" > * Michael Larabel in Phoronix: " The machinectl shell command is meant to replace su for running privileged sessions. " in the opening > > ... and in part from the systemd version 225 release notes: > >> Hence, 'machinectl shell' can be used as [a] replacement for 'su' which spawns the session as a fresh systemd unit. > > > Interestingly, neither the 7-year-old Freedesktop.org pkexec (su, but using Freedesktop.org's own PolicyKit) nor FreeBSD's "/etc/rc.d/jail console myjail1" have made such headlines. (-: >
I think it was Poettering's criticism of su that makes this more interesting to the press. Or maybe it's a slow news week. Whether they took the criticism out of context or not is another question. -- Joel Rees
