Re: Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command

[Måns Rullgård]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> writes:

>> It appears that my su exec()s the shell, whereas the redhat and gentoo
>> su fork() and exec().
>
> Yes, your su probably does not support PAM.

I don't think it does.  I still don't see the need to fork when using
PAM.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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