Your message dated Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:10:41 -0500 (EST)
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line ksu to root does not set USER
has caused the Debian Bug report #595339,
regarding krb5-user: ksu does not set the USER variable to the target user
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Package: krb5-user
Version: 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4
Severity: normal
Well, theres not much to add : ) MAN Page says ksu does change USER variable to
target user, but ksu does not do it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages krb5-user depends on:
ii krb5-config 1.22 Configuration files for Kerberos V
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library
ii libkadm55 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos administration runtim
ii libkeyutils1 1.2-9 Linux Key Management Utilities (li
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libss2 1.41.3-1 command-line interface parsing lib
krb5-user recommends no packages.
krb5-user suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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tags 595339 sid
thanks
This issue appears to be assuming that USER is set for ksu to root which does
not happen and is documented.
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