On Tue 14/10 19:08, Miod Vallat wrote: > > just22@poseidon:[xfe]> sudo su -c ls > > su: no such login class: ls > > > > so basically sudo is parsing the "-c" option instead of passing it to > > su. > > No, it is not. If it were, the error message would come from sudo, not > from su. > > > And, in any case, why the same command works in Linux? do they use a > > modified/patched version? > > They use a different su(1). You might want to check the third example in > the OpenBSD manual page for su.
Todd, Miod, My bad, two times (I misinterpreted the error message and I didn't read the documentation, where the behavior is explicitly mentioned - into the BUGS section of the su's man page, incidentally). Thanks for your hints, that have pointed me in the right direction. Cheers -- Alessandro DE LAURENZIS [mailto:just22....@gmail.com] LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis
