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Re: "su is really a broken concept"

From Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: "su is really a broken concept"
Date 2015-09-03 01:20 +0200
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T.J. Duchene:
> If someone can do it better, and still keep it compatible with POSIX, 
> more power to them. 

This is not the first place where someone has randomly thrown POSIX into 
the discussion.  "su" is outwith the scope of the POSIX standard.  It's 
in the SVID, but to my knowledge "su" never made into POSIX.  The SUS 
mentions it in passing under setuid() as a non-conformant application.

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