Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:26:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: should su retain ${DISPLAY}
Message-ID: <199504090826.KAA05800@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504090700.AAA07691@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 9, 95 03:00:08 am
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As Charles Henrich wrote: > > >t is therefore arguable that not preserving DISPLAY in these cases > >is, in fact, the right thing to do. > > Your right, it should completely reset the environment as if it was a fresh > login. See my other argumentation: it does already import TERM. > Speaking of su, why the hell doesnt FreeBSD's su support -c cmd like > every other su on the planet? Since you have not implemented it yet. ;-) (...and other people are comfortable enough with ``echo foo | su'') -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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