Re: su(1) wish list

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Karel Zak wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:06:09AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:58:01PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
>>> I've also filed a pull request on github:
>>> https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/10
>>
>>  Merged, but you forgot man page ;-) I don't think we need whole
>>  history for the man page, so just copy and edit any existing su.1
>>  man page and send it as a patch.

The su man page from coreutils is pretty brief. More docu is in the
info page. The license is the FDL, would that be ok or would a new
man page from scratch be better? Or maybe the one from shadow-utils?

> another issue:
> 
>   - why su.c expects "PATH" and "SUPATH" login default variables, but
>     login.c expects "ENV_PATH" and "ENV_SUPATH"?
> 
>     See also login.def man page from shadow-utils where ENV_* is
>     documented (for login as well as for su).
> 
>     IMHO we need to share the configuration between login and su.

No idea why it is different. Probably legacy stuff. I see no reason
why to use different values than login though.

> and wish list:

ACK

cu
Ludwig

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