From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: su(1) wish list
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 15:42:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120530134219.GE374@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC4BDE1.7000303@suse.de>
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:15:29PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:06:09AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:58:01PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> >>> I've also filed a pull request on github:
> >>> https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/10
> >>
> >> Merged, but you forgot man page ;-) I don't think we need whole
> >> history for the man page, so just copy and edit any existing su.1
> >> man page and send it as a patch.
>
> The su man page from coreutils is pretty brief. More docu is in the
> info page. The license is the FDL, would that be ok or would a new
> man page from scratch be better? Or maybe the one from shadow-utils?
It should be pretty simple to write a new man page from scratch --
as an example see some new man pages in util-linux (e.g. lsblk, lslocks, ...)
> No idea why it is different. Probably legacy stuff. I see no reason
> why to use different values than login though.
OK, I'll (or Sami in his cleanup) will change it. Thanks.
Karel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-24 12:58 [PULL] su Ludwig Nussel
2012-05-25 7:41 ` Karel Zak
2012-05-25 9:55 ` Ludwig Nussel
2012-05-29 9:06 ` Karel Zak
2012-05-29 11:34 ` su(1) wish list Karel Zak
2012-05-29 12:15 ` Ludwig Nussel
2012-05-29 12:30 ` Voelker, Bernhard
2012-05-30 13:42 ` Karel Zak [this message]
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