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mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes: > Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> 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. > > I don't think it does. I still don't see the need to fork when using > PAM. Because PAM needs to do some cleanup after the shell has exited. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - 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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