Re: Another system management tool to disappear.
Hi.
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 09:49:55 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > If su goes away, IMNSHO, it will be such a PITA that it will
> > > encourage far more people to just give up and run their machines as
> > > root full time. And I don't believe for a millisecond that is the
> > > effect intended.
> >
> > They provide some systemd-specific kludge instead of su. So it's not
> > that bad.
>
> I don't recall recognizing that being discussed yet.
Please read the bugreport. It's all there.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/825
>
> > And, given the current systemd adoption rate in Debian, I'd say that
> > we, stable users, have 3-4 years before that "machinectl login" thing
> > will be available to us.
> >
> > > So, if su goes away, how do I accomplish those tasks in a suitable
> > > manner that will not bore a hole in the user sandbox?
> >
> > If it comes to this (i.e 'su' will go away) - I just use busybox
> > (which has perfectly working implementation of su without the fancy
> > bits). I.e.
> >
> > busybox su -
>
> Command not found. Wheezy 32 bit install.
Obviously for this command to work it's required to install busybox.
I'd recommend busybox-static package.
Reco
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