Re: Another system management tool to disappear.
On Saturday 29 August 2015 10:39:07 Reco wrote:
> 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
Installed it, suid problems:
gene@coyote:~$ busybox su amanda
su: must be suid to work properly
gene@coyote:~$ busybox su -
su: must be suid to work properly
Is it still finding the system su first?
Thanks
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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