On Monday 31 August 2015 17:43:00 Christian Seiler wrote: > On 08/31/2015 05:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 31 August 2015 16:36:26 The Wanderer wrote: > >> Lennart's proposed alternative (to su) > > > > After all this discussion, I thought that I ought really to find out what > > Lennart was proposing, and I must say that it looks remarkably > > disability-unfriendly. :-( > > > > For those who have still not discovered, you have to press ^ three times > > in succession inside a second. > > Well, if you want to force-close the session. su/sudo/pkexec don't > support that at all, as far as I know, so while there certainly is room > for improvement when it comes to accessibility (and the formulation of > the message) here, it isn't worse than su/sudo either. > > If you want to exit the shell normally, typically the 'exit' command > will suffice (it depends on your shell, obviously).
It seems to be even worse: $ machinectl shell Connected to the local host. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session. sh-4.3# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 sh-4.3# whoami root sh-4.3# so: ^] Su is _much_ easier to type, and there is no restrictive time limit on how long you can take typing it. the illustration shows moving from user to root. $ to # It is, as I said, very disability unfriendly. su is not. Lisi