Dan wrote:
On 9/4/06, Brandon Peirce <brandon_peirce at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> One _advantage_ of the coreutils version is that is implements a -c
switch
> which the shadow version doesn't. (More about -c later.)
The shadow version implements -c to pass a command. su would be pretty
crippled without it.
I certainly agree. Having su -c is essential!
[06:59 AM dan at silky] su -h
Usage: su [options] [login]
Options:
-c, --command COMMAND pass COMMAND to the invoked shell
-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
[06:59 AM dan at silky] paco -q `which su`
/bin/su: shadow-4.0.15
Well, here's my output:
---
22:04 bash$ su-shadow -h
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
---
Problem is I'm still using 4.0.14 :-(
Extract from NEWS file of a more recent shadow tarball:
---
shadow-4.0.14 -> shadow-4.0.15
[...]
- su: added handle -c,--command option for GNU su compliance (merge
437_su_-c_option Debian patch),
---
Brandon.
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