* Christian Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> [170122 17:06]: > * Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> [170122 15:31]: > > Also note the following su related patches carried in Debian shadow package: > > http://sources.debian.net/src/shadow/1:4.4-2/debian/patches/523_su_arguments_are_concatenated/ > > http://sources.debian.net/src/shadow/1:4.4-2/debian/patches/523_su_arguments_are_no_more_concatenated_by_default/ > > Both seems obsolete (the second one even says to be dropped after etch > > which was released 2007). > > (Also pbuilder seems to have switched from su to start-stop-daemon.) > > Dropping the second one sure sounds safe, but the first one looks > like it changes commonly used behaviour? How does su from util-linux handle > that?
After some testing (and discussion on IRC), I can't find a difference in -c and -- handling between u-l su and Debian's current su *. So whatever those patches do exactly, they are not preventing us from switching. * ignoring the extra env var SU_NO_SHELL_ARGS that Debian's su supports. -- christian hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org>
