Hi. On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 09:49:55 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > If su goes away, IMNSHO, it will be such a PITA that it will > > > encourage far more people to just give up and run their machines as > > > root full time. And I don't believe for a millisecond that is the > > > effect intended. > > > > They provide some systemd-specific kludge instead of su. So it's not > > that bad. > > I don't recall recognizing that being discussed yet. Please read the bugreport. It's all there. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/825 > > > And, given the current systemd adoption rate in Debian, I'd say that > > we, stable users, have 3-4 years before that "machinectl login" thing > > will be available to us. > > > > > So, if su goes away, how do I accomplish those tasks in a suitable > > > manner that will not bore a hole in the user sandbox? > > > > If it comes to this (i.e 'su' will go away) - I just use busybox > > (which has perfectly working implementation of su without the fancy > > bits). I.e. > > > > busybox su - > > Command not found. Wheezy 32 bit install. Obviously for this command to work it's required to install busybox. I'd recommend busybox-static package. Reco