GNU su supports the -c option to specify a command to execute. However, other flavours of su may have a different interpretation of the '-c' flag (e.g. FreeBSD and OpenBSD).
The behaviour is correct when '-c' follows an explicit username. Signed-off-by: Rémy Oudompheng <[email protected]> --- See for example: * OpenBSD manpage at http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=su * FreeBSD manpage at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=su On branch 'maint' scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index 1c8c50e..69922c9 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ run_pacman() { if [ "$(type -p sudo)" ]; then cmd="sudo $cmd" else - cmd="su -c '$cmd'" + cmd="su root -c '$cmd'" fi fi eval "$cmd" -- 1.7.4.4
