[gentoo-dev] re: current su being used.

[gentoo-dev] re: current su being used.

[Martin Schlemmer]

hi

being used to things makes you not take note of new (man su ;-).

forget previous post ;-)

[gentoo-dev] re: current su being used.

[Martin Schlemmer]

>> I would like to inquire why /bin/su from the shadow tools >> is used
and
>> not /bin/su form sh-utils ?

>> The problem i have is thus: su from shadow do not set env >> strings
>> correctly (to name one: $USER), where su from sh-utils do.

>> Any possibility for this to be rectified ?

ok, like i said in a earlier post, made a mistake ('su -' ;-))

problem now is: my sh-utils got merged after shadow, and although
sh-utils's /bin/su is removed, its manpage is not, thus adding in my
confusion.

.diff to correct sh-utils-2.0j-r4.ebuild:
---------------------cut here--------------------------
*** sh-utils-2.0j-r4.ebuild.orig	Sat Sep 15 18:25:41 2001
--- sh-utils-2.0j-r4.ebuild	Sat Sep 15 18:26:26 2001
***************
*** 60,65 ****
--- 60,66 ----
  	fi
  	#we use the /bin/su from the sys-apps/shadow package
  	rm ${D}/bin/su
+ 	rm ${D}/usr/share/man/man1/su.1.gz
  }
---------------------cut here--------------------------

greetings
MS

Re: [gentoo-dev] re: current su being used.

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

Applied and committed.

Karl T

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:29:23PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> >> I would like to inquire why /bin/su from the shadow tools >> is used
> and
> >> not /bin/su form sh-utils ?
> 
> >> The problem i have is thus: su from shadow do not set env >> strings
> >> correctly (to name one: $USER), where su from sh-utils do.
> 
> >> Any possibility for this to be rectified ?
> 
> ok, like i said in a earlier post, made a mistake ('su -' ;-))
> 
> problem now is: my sh-utils got merged after shadow, and although
> sh-utils's /bin/su is removed, its manpage is not, thus adding in my
> confusion.
> 
> .diff to correct sh-utils-2.0j-r4.ebuild:
> ---------------------cut here--------------------------
> *** sh-utils-2.0j-r4.ebuild.orig	Sat Sep 15 18:25:41 2001
> --- sh-utils-2.0j-r4.ebuild	Sat Sep 15 18:26:26 2001
> ***************
> *** 60,65 ****
> --- 60,66 ----
>   	fi
>   	#we use the /bin/su from the sys-apps/shadow package
>   	rm ${D}/bin/su
> + 	rm ${D}/usr/share/man/man1/su.1.gz
>   }
> ---------------------cut here--------------------------
> 
> greetings
> MS
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] re: current su being used.

[Daniel Robbins]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:29:23PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
>   	#we use the /bin/su from the sys-apps/shadow package
>   	rm ${D}/bin/su
> + 	rm ${D}/usr/share/man/man1/su.1.gz

Fixed; thanks.

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