On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:27:12AM +0000, Richard A Downing wrote: > I just built the cross-lfs book, and noticed that the version of su > installed comes from shadow. This version doesn't support -c, which IMO > makes it useless. The version built in coreutils is the one I'm used to.
I hit that very problem yesterday and your email prompted me to check it out. If you have followed the coreutils instructions for any book starting with 6.0 then you would have been suppressing the coreutils su and using the shadow one. Shadow-4.0.12's su accepts -c. I have no conclusions at this point as unfortunately I did not log all files installed in my fresh trunk build. Here's some ideas: 1) Perhaps the coreutils patch wasn't applied by either of us. 2) Perhaps the patch no longer suppresses su and shadow doesn't install su because it sees it already exists. 3) Perhaps shadow is no longer supporting that switch. 4) Perhaps shadow is miscompiling. Some of those are more far-fetched than the others, but I doubt I will have time to check today. I am currently updating my scripts, though, and if I get the chance will start a fully logged build late tonight. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
