From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:56:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je8ym0671f.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xy8u021eb.fsf@kth.se> ( Måns Rullgård's message of "Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:11:40 +0100")
mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>>> It appears that my su exec()s the shell, whereas the redhat and gentoo
>>> su fork() and exec().
>>
>> Yes, your su probably does not support PAM.
>
> I don't think it does. I still don't see the need to fork when using
> PAM.
Because PAM needs to do some cleanup after the shell has exited.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-28 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-28 8:30 Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command Raj
2003-11-28 9:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-28 10:57 ` Tim Cambrant
2003-11-28 10:54 ` Andre Tomt
2003-11-28 10:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-11-28 10:47 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-28 10:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-11-28 11:11 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-28 11:56 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-11-28 11:22 ` Raj
2003-11-28 11:52 ` Andreas Schwab
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2003-11-28 9:39 Bradley Chapman
2003-11-28 9:54 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-28 9:59 ` Raj
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