On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:58:01PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > coreutils isn't really interested in maintaining su anymore. > Distributions have to add custom patches to fix bugs and add > features. The worst offender is probably the pam patch. Fortunately > we managed to sync the patch between openSUSE and Fedora meanwhile. > Over time the risk that the patches divert again increases though. > Since util-linux now contains a common login program it looks like a > good new home for su too. > > To integrate su into util-linux I've extracted the history of the su > program until the last GPLv2 version (they've changed to GPLv3 > meanwhile) from coreutils' git and merged it with util-linux. > Then I've added the patches used in Fedora and openSUSE and fixed the > files to actually build. Good work, thanks. > You can find the result in branch su-v1 (ff6b15d) at > git@xxxxxxxxxx:lnussel/util-linux.git > > I've also filed a pull request on github: > https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/10 > > Originally I had planned to implement separate tty allocation for > the child program on top of that to get rid of the evil setsid > patch. It turned out to be more complicated than I thought though. The > change would be too massive to backport anyways I guess. So the next > step would be to rip out the non-pam legacy stuff and clean up the code > to make it readable again. It would be nice to cleanup the code (remove non-PAM stuff) before merge. Can you do this in your su branch? Please. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
