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SubjectRe: Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command
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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.

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