Re: removing "su" from coreutils [Re: Fwd: [PULL] su

[Ludwig Nussel]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> [...]
> There was also a very related request for
> `runuser` like functionality to be generally available:
> http://bugs.gnu.org/8700

Looks like chroot fulfils the requirements stated in that bug report
already. You can just chroot to / and have it switch uids only after
all :-)
Beware of CVE-2005-4890 when switching to unprivileged and
potentially compromised user accounts though.

cu
Ludwig

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