This question comes from what using Package Users identifies during the
installation. In this particular case, it wasn't necessarily Package
Users because I did a little extra digging. Because su is so important
to Package Users at the beginning of Ch. 6 and because of "naggy" little
stuff that I've experienced in 7.4, I'm particularly sensitized to su.
Shadow and Util-linux both supply su. However, su is not mentioned
under "Installed Programs" in Ch. 6.61, and its compilation is not
suppressed in the configure options--disable su is given in "./configure
--help" with no default indicated--for util-linux. It did, in fact,
compile and exists in the source tree. However, no mention of it is
given in my install.log. I have found nothing that says su must be
specifically enabled at configure time, although searching the internet
indicates that su is supplied by util-linux.
It seems reasonable to me, with possibly faulty logic, that a group of
utilities from the same package might operate better together.
Util-linux provides su and sulogin, for example.
Here are my questions:
1. Which version of su, shadow or util-linux is recommended or
preferred or are they "the same?"
2. If the util-linux version of it is the one to use, how do I get it
to install other than issuing something like <install su /usr/bin> (not
sure of the correct syntax) or using <--enable-su> at configure time?
Thanks,
Dan
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