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

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@saintmail.net>]

>> 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