Paul Eggert wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> i believe Debian/Ubuntu use su from coreutils . > > Nope, they use shadow; /bin/su on Debian stable comes from shadow > 4.0.3, and testing and unstable come from 4.0.18.1. I don't know of > any distribution using coreutils su now. (Not that I keep track of > all this stuff....)
When I last looked into it (12 mths ago) Red Hat/Fedora were using su from coreutils (albeit patched to make it PAM-aware) while Debian were using su from shadow. Personally, I prefer the coreutils version due to some subtle differences in behavior. More background here: http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2005-August/000610.html Regards Greg _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
