Hey, sh-utils folks,
There's a MAJOR bug in su.
I should be able to say
su - user -X
and have the -X flag be passed to $user's shell at startup so that I can
debug startup scripts without having to put a 'set echo' or 'set verbose'
in the scripts (since they're scattered all over the place and I don't
know which one gets sourced first). This is debugging a startup problem
in csh, by the way, but that I can handle.
The main problem is that su is broken -- it refuses to pass any shell
options to a user. Go to a (for example) NetBSD machine and you will
discover that the above usage actually works. su should not be
interpreting any other flags than '-' or '-l' or '-m/-p'; all others
should be passed on to the shell (originally the '-f' was there to
avoid syntax confusion in an emergency ("do I do su -f user or su
user -f?")).
Solaris behaves in the same way except that they tend to interpret '-f'
in the SysV way that it means 'full login', i.e. it's an alias for '-'.
I disagree with that interpretation, FWIW.
--*greywolf;
/* Second Wave UNIX Historian since 1984 */
_______________________________________________
Bug-sh-utils mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
