Jim Meyering wrote: > I tried to use the su from coreutils (with or without your patch) > and found that it does not work when it attempts to authenticate. > E.g., it cannot su to any user on this Fedora 17 system. If su > remains so broken that it does not work out-of-the-box on F17, > then it's not worth patching. Remember that I wanted to remove su > from coreutils altogether, and only reluctantly agreed to consider > this change. If someone who cares about su remaining in coreutils > wants to take responsibility for making it usable, that'd be great. > It may be as simple as importing a patch or two from Fedora or Suse.
It (su built from latest git) works here on OpenSuSE-12.1, so it may be a F17 issue. OpenSuSE uses su from coreutils BTW. Have a nice day, Berny
