Richard A Downing wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Richard, >> >> I'm at work at the moment so can't reply on list. Shadow's 'su' is >> documented to support the '-c' parameter, at least in man/su/su.1.xml. >> I'm pretty certain I've used 'su -c' before now on my LFS box, and we've >> used shadow's 'su' for as long as I can remember. Obviously I can't be >> 100% until I get back home and check, though that'll be some time >> tomorrow as I'm off out to watch the footy tonight. What error message >> do you get when you try to use the '-c' parameter? >> >> Regards, >> >> Matt. >> > > Matt, > > I rebuilt shadow-4.0.14 using the lfs udev-branch instructions and this > version reprots as follows: > > su: invalid option -- c > Usage: su [options] [login] > > Options: > -h, --help display this help message and exit > -, -l, --login make the shell a login shell > -m, -p, > --preserve-environment do not reset environment variables, and keep > the same shell > -s, --shell SHELL use SHELL instead of the default in passwd > > I wonder if it's the version, I looked at the changelog and saw nothing > to indicate this. Man su suggests that the error message is right and > this version doesn't support -c. > > I'll do some more investigation later. > > R. >
OK, on further investigation - this is a change since 4.0.13. Clearly 4.0.14 is broken. I'll report it upstream. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
