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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:15:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com
Subject:   Re: su problem
Message-ID:  <199610062115.XAA01101@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610061403.QAA07991@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "6. Oct. 96 16:03:22"

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> > su -l hasty <shell>
> > 
> > it gets a core dump...
> 
> Analyze it.  That's what coredumps are for.
> 
> Are you sure that it's not actually
> 
>   su -l hasty -c "<something>"

It would be nice if this would work.
I was searching for that feature since the time I changed
from SysVr3.2 to FreeBSD. (And it's not in the manpage.)

Is the missing ability to execute commands like sh BSD-specific
or a security precaution ?

Robert

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