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SubjectRe: Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command
FromAndreas Schwab <>
DateFri, 28 Nov 2003 12:56:12 +0100
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.

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