On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:23:58 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com> wrote: > On 4/23/12 1:11 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: >> The reason is that /tools/bin/su cannot work for a normal user, >> because the setuid bit cannot be set at install in chapter 5 (if >> installing as user lfs). Hence the choice of naming it su-tools, to >> prevent it to run (and fail) if the lfs user (who has a PATH beginning >> with /tools/bin) runs su to become root. > > Yep! Maybe it's OK to leave it as Matt has changed it (to /tools/bin/su) > but add a large warning about it on the coreutils page.
I had a thought last week that this omission of the setuid bit is what's causing the test failures in the gnulib tests included in the latest version of coreutils. I'll see if I can find time this week to test that theory out. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
