On 09/05/2012 11:06 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Drew Ames wrote: >> It seems that the simplest solution would be to build coreutils-8.15 >> or some other version prior to 8.18. Run configure and make, then >> copy the uninstalled version to /tools/bin/su: 'cp src/su >> /tools/bin' >> >> Until somebody can figure out why the shadow su is behaving >> differently, the above option seems to be a good one. >> >> Thoughts? > Old versions of the pkg-user hint have sources for a trivial su program > that does everything necessary for current versions of the hint as well; > it only changes from root to a user, but that's enough. That seems > simpler than trying to hang onto an old version of coreutils and build > pieces of it, or building pieces of shadow, at least to me. :-) > Hi Bryan and John,
I just got back from a vacation where I didn't go online for a number of days (yay!). So, I'm just now getting back to this thread. Bryan, would you please point me to the older versions of the package users hint helpers with the trivial su program? I can't seem to find them anywhere. I'm presuming it was written in C. Is that right? Regards, -Drew -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
