Re: Another system management tool to disappear.
Hi.
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 11:49:12 +1200
Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:12:32PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > To:
> >
> > 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?
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/825 says:
su[1980]: pam_systemd(su-l:session): Cannot create session: Already
running in a session
Why the bug report implies that pam_systemd shoud create a new
'session' (whatever it means by 'session') *and* set some obscure
environment variables is beyond me. Especially since su(1) directly says
that su should not create session, it should reuse an existing one.
Reco
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