> Both username hehe and #hehe don't exist
>
> [freax@freax freax]$ su hehe
> su: user hehe does not exist
> [freax@freax freax]$ su #hehe
> Password:
> su: incorrect password
> [freax@freax freax]$
Thanks for the report. But that is not a bug. The behavior you
report has nothing to do with su and everything to do with the command
line shell. The '#' is normally a comment character with most command
line shells.
Therefore the su command is not seeing the string '"su" "#hehe"' it is
seeing only the "su" and the rest of the line is commented out.
Try using "echo" to verify the behavior.
[bob@torment bob]$ echo su hehe
su hehe
[bob@torment bob]$ echo su #hehe
su
If you really want to pass a command a string which contains shells
metacharacters then you need to quote the string.
[bob@torment bob]$ su '#hehe'
su: user #hehe does not exist
Bob
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