On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 09:21:23AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > > Thank you, Ted. This is the best explanation I saw so far. I accept it > > for default. > > > > An interesting question to consider is where would be the best place > to put this kind of information. I learned it very on in my career, > and what is "obvious" to one person can be "obscure lore" to another. > > It's probably too much tutorial information for the su man page, but I don't see problem to add "SAFE ENVIRONMENT" to su(1), it's probably place where the topic will be more visible than in some tutorial. 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