Christian Seiler:
Note that _nobody_ working on su, neither upstream nor maintaining it
in distributions, has claimed that they will stop.
Indeed. The implication that su is being replaced has, rather, come
from the technology journalists and web log diarists writing headlines ...
* Paul Carroty's piece referenced from this thread: "... 'su' command
replacement ..."
* Sam Varghese in ITWire: "Systemd's latest conquest: the 'su' command"
and "It remains to be seen which other functions systemd will seek to
take over. " in the body
* Softpedia: "systemd 225 Adds 'su' Replacement" with "'machinectl
shell' is the new 'su' replacement in systemd" as the subtitle
* Lukáš Jelínek in LinuxExpress: "Funkcionalita příkazu 'su' začleněna
do systemd"
* Petr Krčmář in root.cz: "Do systemd je integrována náhrada za 'su'"
* Michael Larabel in Phoronix: " The machinectl shell command is meant
to replace su for running privileged sessions. " in the opening
... and in part from the systemd version 225 release notes:
Hence, 'machinectl shell' can be used as [a] replacement for 'su'
which spawns the session as a fresh systemd unit.
Interestingly, neither the 7-year-old Freedesktop.org pkexec (su, but
using Freedesktop.org's own PolicyKit) nor FreeBSD's "/etc/rc.d/jail
console myjail1" have made such headlines. (-:
