On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Steve Dodd wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 06:05:04PM -0500, Alan Curry wrote:
>
>> It really isn't user "old". su changes what user YOU REALLY ARE. That's what
>> su MEANS. Substitute User. If you don't like it you can rm /bin/su. You don't
>> need to bloat everybody's task_struct with this luid sillyness.
>
>What's the difference between su and login, then?
1. you can't switch to a user whose password you don't know with login.
2. su only asks for a password to root - if you have that you can go anywhere.
3. If root doesn't have the ability to do a setuser (capability based) then
there is no difference,(or if su always required a password...)
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