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Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch
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Greg Schafer |
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Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch |
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Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:39:39 +1000 |
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Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> i believe Debian/Ubuntu use su from coreutils .
>
> Nope, they use shadow; /bin/su on Debian stable comes from shadow
> 4.0.3, and testing and unstable come from 4.0.18.1. I don't know of
> any distribution using coreutils su now. (Not that I keep track of
> all this stuff....)
When I last looked into it (12 mths ago) Red Hat/Fedora were using su from
coreutils (albeit patched to make it PAM-aware) while Debian were using su
from shadow.
Personally, I prefer the coreutils version due to some subtle differences
in behavior. More background here:
http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2005-August/000610.html
Regards
Greg
- Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Matthew Burgess, 2006/08/23
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Paul Eggert, 2006/08/23
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Matthew Burgess, 2006/08/24
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Paul Eggert, 2006/08/24
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Mike Frysinger, 2006/08/24
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Paul Eggert, 2006/08/25
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Andreas Schwab, 2006/08/25
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch,
Greg Schafer <=
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Mike Frysinger, 2006/08/26
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, mwoehlke, 2006/08/25
- Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Jim Meyering, 2006/08/25
Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch, Mike Frysinger, 2006/08/23