>> I already understand the problem. Thank. >> >As do I now that I know that the su-tools I thought may have come packaged >with the helper >scripts didn't, it was from coreutils and is now awol >well, like I said it's been a while, but I have acquired a couple of old Dell >d600 laptops so will play >around. >My guess is simply grabbing from the host as Bruce suggested is the easiest >option. >Firerat I intuitively don't like that solution because if someone grabs my script to play around with it, they will likely have a different host and su could be in a different location from my host. I tried compiling shadow at the end of chapter 5 and using that su - but it doesn't work. It doesn't appear to execute the bashrc file in the package user directory. I went back to try coreutils-8.17 and that version of su works okay. I don't understand why at the moment. What is likely to be the difference between the coreutils-8.17 version and the shadow version of su, that I compiled, to make it behave this way? jb.
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