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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Change in behaviour of SU...
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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?