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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 24 May 2012 09:50:40 Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 05/24/2012 02:21 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > I would like to remove su.c, if/when possible from coreutils.
> > The last time I proposed that, the Hurd was mentioned as a
> > reason not to, since they relied on the su from coreutils.
> > 
> > Is that still the case, and if so, can you (the Hurd) switch
> > to the one from util-linux?
> 
> Well it's not clear cut to me, given that su
> isn't really Linux specific.
> 
> Note Fedora and Suse use su from coreutils
> while debian use their own:
> http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/

"shadow" isn't really a Debian project.  it was an independent one that slowly 
died, so peeps at Debian decided to pick it up.  the alioth site is a generic 
project hosting site that Debian maintains to help out its developers.

Gentoo uses su from the shadow package too which makes sense considering it 
provides the user management utilities (adduser/deluser/etc...) as well as 
things like `login`.

it would be nice to find a single home for these guys (su, login, sulogin) as 
we've got overlap with at least 4 projects: coreutils shadow util-linux 
sysvinit.
-mike

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