On 05/24/2012 02:50 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Note Fedora and Suse use su from coreutils > while debian use their own: > http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/ > > Note also Fedora has `runuser` which is based on su: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=coreutils-8.7-runuser.patch;hb=HEAD > > There was also a very related request for > `runuser` like functionality to be generally available: > http://bugs.gnu.org/8700 > > It's probably worth bringing runuser with su, > no matter where they end up.
So with su being removed in favor of the util-linux implementation, `runuser` is being implemented there too. I.E. it will be available outside of redhat/fedora/centos/... in util-linux >= 2.22, and so should address http://bugs.gnu.org/8700 Note from previous comments in this thread, it seems like allowing runser to be built (as an option?) without requiring PAM, would be useful. For reference, here are utils with similar functionality: chid,really Mentioned in feature request from debian http://bugs.gnu.org/8700 chroot --userspec=U:G --groups=G1,G2,G3 / since coreutils v7.4-16-gc45c51f beware of CVE-2005-4890 setuidgid coreutils internal only http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/setuidgid.c;hb=HEAD sg from pwdutils http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/newgrp.html sudo -u -g runas from titantools cheers, Pádraig.
