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. > > Which version would SVN build? And after alphab----ering it? I never > build PAM, so wouldn't have overwritten the LFS su in previous builds > with the shadow version from BLFS.
You are right. It is the same for the standard LFS too. Personally I never noticed because I have gotten away from su and use sudo. I have much more control and can set up some (or all) commands to not require a password. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page