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Andreas Schwab wrote: >mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes: > > > >>It appears that my su exec()s the shell, whereas the redhat and gentoo >>su fork() and exec(). >> >> > >Yes, your su probably does not support PAM. > >Andreas. > > > But why is it that after 'su - root', running 'ps' shows 'su' as a separate process, whereas, 'su - otheruser' and then 'ps' does not show 'su' in the process list ?? In plain words, why does this happen only for su to root ? /Raj - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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