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Date:      Fri, 31 May 2002 10:40:22 +0200
From:      Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
To:        jmallett@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/38308: su(1) prints bogus help message; inconsistent man page
Message-ID:  <20020531104022.A57772@schweikhardt.net>
In-Reply-To: <200205270623.g4R6Nc034004@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jmallett@FreeBSD.org on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:23:38PM -0700
References:  <200205270623.g4R6Nc034004@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:23:38PM -0700, jmallett@FreeBSD.org wrote:
# Synopsis: su(1) prints bogus help message; inconsistent man page
# 
# State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
# State-Changed-By: jmallett
# State-Changed-When: Sun May 26 23:18:17 PDT 2002
# State-Changed-Why: 
# If -c is specified after the login, it is passed to the shell, just like every
# thing that occurs after the login, which is logically the first argument when
# getopt(3) completes.  If it is before, it specifies the login class.
# 
# As for the --help error, I can't for the life of me find where su(1) has EVER
# printed that usage message.  It seems to always have printed a traditional BSD
# usage message.

Does this mean you can't reproduce the --help message?
It could be a PAM thing...
If you can reproduce the message I think you should reopen the PR.
At least the man page should be fixed accordingly.

Regards,

	Jens
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