Re: mandb wrapper scripts

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:44:50AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> however, there is another solution, that just occured to me:
> 
> exec su -s /bin/sh nobody -c ${1+"$cmd"}
> 
> the -s flag tells su to use the specified shell instead of the one
> from /etc/passwd.
> 
> the only possible problem with this is portability, I know the su
> debian currently uses supports -s but what about other su ? if debian
> were to change to another one it would suck to have things start
> breaking because it lost -s

hurd's su is pretty minimalistic and doesn't support this -s option.

I would prefer a portable implementation over adding -s to the native su
each time Debian is ported to a new platform.

Thanks,
Marcus


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