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| From | Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 |
| Date | 2018-08-13 15:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <wmleF-6LP-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <wlyH0-3qG-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <wmksh-6gQ-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <wmkLD-6Ct-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On 2018-08-13 14:06 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> Actually, util-linux is distributed by the Linux Kernel Organization
> (i.e. the folks at kernel.org). So, yes, Debian has to match what Red
> Hat does inasmuch as Red Hat uses a Linux kernel and so does
> Debian. It just makes sense to use the kernel-provided kernel
> utilities.
>
> As an aside, I don't know what the situation is with the *BSD
> Debians. They presumably don't use util-linux, so I *guess* they're
> still using su from src:shadow?
No, kfreebsd and hurd also use util-linux and its su implementation.
While not all programs in the util-linux suite work on non-Linux
architectures, many of them do.
https://sources.debian.org/src/util-linux/2.32.1-0.1/debian/util-linux.install/
Cheers,
Sven
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New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-08-11 11:50 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Stefan Krusche <linux@stefan-krusche.de> - 2018-08-11 12:00 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-08-11 16:10 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org> - 2018-08-11 17:50 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-08-11 18:00 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-08-11 19:10 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-11 13:50 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-08-11 18:00 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-13 14:50 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-08-13 15:10 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-08-13 15:40 +0200
Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-08-14 11:00 +0200
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