>True, but easy with a script, something like
>   install $(which su) /tools/bin/su

Yes. I'm going to hang on to the coreutils-8.17 version for the moment because 
I know that one works.



>Shot in the dark,.but are you using login flag?

>   su -l user
Not as far as I'm aware.



>> 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?



>If you are not using -,-l,--login it could be that coreutils defaults to this 
>BUT I don't see >why it should?!1!


I'll try the su from shadow from chapter06 and see if that's different from the 
one I compiled in Chapter05. Probably not, but it's worth a try. I'll also try 
the one from the host - Ubuntu in my case.
jb.


                                          
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