On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Scott Mattan <s-mat...@niscom.co.jp> wrote: > Hello, > > I am seeing some disparity between (two distributions granted) CentOS 6.6 > and Fedora22 in their use of the su utility. I cannot figure out the cause, > so I cannot fix it. > > In CentOS there is no way to script login to root... this is of course a > desirable trait. > for instance, > [ user@localhost user ]$ su root <<EOF >> password >> echo "" >> id >> EOF > standard in must be a tty
$ (sleep 1; echo password) | python -c "import pty; pty.spawn(['/bin/su','-c','id']);" Some programs require stdin on a tty, su has gone back and forth on it. It really doesn't stop anything. John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
