From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:28396 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754532Ab2E3Npt (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2012 09:45:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 15:42:19 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: Ludwig Nussel Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: su(1) wish list Message-ID: <20120530134219.GE374@x2.net.home> References: <4FBE3059.3030806@suse.de> <20120529090609.GO3757@x2.net.home> <20120529113418.GB374@x2.net.home> <4FC4BDE1.7000303@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4FC4BDE1.7000303@suse.de> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com