On Sep 4, 2012 6:58 PM, "John Burrell" <john_burr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >> I already understand the problem. Thank.
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> >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
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> 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.
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True, but easy with a script, something like
install $(which su) /tools/bin/su
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> 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.
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Shot in the dark,.but are you using login flag?
su -l user
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> 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?
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If you are not using -,-l,--login it could be that coreutils defaults to
this BUT I don't see why it should?!1!
> jb.
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