Bug in /bin/su?
Kris A. Kugel
kak at hico2.UUCP
Thu Mar 14 05:09:52 AEST 1991
In article <1299 at kosman.UUCP>, kevin at kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
> For instance, if I want to su to 'news', which is generally unavailable
> for normal login, on most systems you can su to root and then su to
> news. On the 3b1 this doesn't work -- you're stuck as root.
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin at kosman.UUCP, kevin%kosman.uucp at nrc.com )
I've just noticed this here, and now I'm starting to wonder:
is there something strange in the software I have here now,
that I didn't notice this before? I could have sworn that this
worked before. Perhaps a bug with my su alias (sets different history
file?) Perhaps a mis-directed binary patch?
Kris A. Kugel
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