Bug#907194: su: yields breakage without "-", not properly documented

2018-09-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-09-16 22:30:29 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > I normally very much agree, but as usual there's a bigger picture to > take into account here. The entire existance of su today basically > boils down to (obsolete?) standards adherence, backwards and sanity > compatibility. Basically su is

Bug#907194: su: yields breakage without "-", not properly documented

2018-09-26 Thread Phillip Susi
On 9/16/2018 4:30 PM, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > If you really want to help, I think the first best step would be > to lobby the debian installer team to make the 'root password' prompt > only show up in 'expert level' installs and thus giving everyone > sudo installed and setup by default (as

Bug#907194: su: yields breakage without "-", not properly documented

2018-09-16 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Control: tags -1 + wontfix Hello Vincent Lefevre, On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 05:17:34PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: util-linux > Version: 2.32.1-0.1 > Severity: important [...] > The fundamental problem is that it's not at all defined what "su" > without -l actually wants to be: (This

Bug#907194: su: yields breakage without "-", not properly documented

2018-08-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: util-linux Version: 2.32.1-0.1 Severity: important There's the following bug affecting many users: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732209 It has been marked as wontfix with the following comment: