Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:08:36 GMT From: Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/121713: man page for su contains errornous example. Message-ID: <200803142108.m2EL8ajM056410@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200803142120.m2ELK1LJ055883@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 121713
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: man page for su contains errornous example.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Mar 14 21:20:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chris St Denis
>Release: 7.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
Smarttnet
>Environment:
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #1: Mon Feb 25 11:51:25 PST 2008 i386
>Description:
the man page for the "su" command contains the examples
su man -c catman
Runs the command catman as user man. You will be asked for man's
password unless your real UID is 0.
su man -c 'catman /usr/share/man /usr/local/man'
Same as above, but the target command consists of more than a sin-
gle word and hence is quoted for use with the -c option being
passed to the shell. (Most shells expect the argument to -c to be
a single word).
These examples do not work because man has the nologin shell, producing the results
mail# su man -c catman
This account is currently not available.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
These examples should be changed or removed. Since there doesn't appear to be any BSD equivalent of the linux --shell parameter for su another user & command will have to be chosen.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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