From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Debian´s change of "su" to the one in util-linux
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 16:43:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180806144328.npyl2jq2yho3mdxj@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180806132123.GA6184@thunk.org>
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 09:21:23AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >
> > Thank you, Ted. This is the best explanation I saw so far. I accept it
> > for default.
> >
>
> An interesting question to consider is where would be the best place
> to put this kind of information. I learned it very on in my career,
> and what is "obvious" to one person can be "obscure lore" to another.
>
> It's probably too much tutorial information for the su man page, but
I don't see problem to add "SAFE ENVIRONMENT" to su(1), it's probably
place where the topic will be more visible than in some tutorial.
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-06 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-05 8:35 Debian´s change of "su" to the one in util-linux Martin Steigerwald
2018-08-05 10:43 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2018-08-05 15:05 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-06 8:24 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-08-06 13:21 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-06 14:43 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2018-08-06 15:56 ` Bernhard Voelker
2018-08-06 6:47 ` Karel Zak
2018-08-06 8:33 ` Martin Steigerwald
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