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To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Change in behaviour of SU... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Sep 1995 22:15:07 CDT."
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 10:41:27 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> In 1.1.5.1, the command "su" passed extra arguments to the shell. In 2.0.5,
> this is disabled. Howcome? I have several scripts that need to start various
> programs as particular users, so I've been using "su user -c command". What
> is the recommended alternative?

I commented on this just the other day.  What we need is `-c' to come
back is what we need.

					Jordan