Re: Another system management tool to disappear.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:12:32PM +0300, Reco wrote:
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> Well, there have been long discussions about this, but the problem is
> that what "su" is supposed to do is very unclear. On one hand it's
> supposed *to open a new session* and change a number of execution
> context parameters (uid, gid, env, ...), and on the other it's supposed
> to inherit a lot concepts from the originating session (tty, cgroup,
> audit, ...).
>
>
> I'm kind of surprised that the bug was not closed as WONTFIX. su(1) is
> not a "full login", but it's not supposed to provide one anyway.
su - <name>
Has always worked fine for me. What's the problem?
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