Re: removing "su" from coreutils [Re: Fwd: [PULL] su

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On Thursday 24 May 2012 09:50:40 P=E1draig Brady wrote:
> On 05/24/2012 02:21 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > I would like to remove su.c, if/when possible from coreutils.
> > The last time I proposed that, the Hurd was mentioned as a
> > reason not to, since they relied on the su from coreutils.
> >=20
> > Is that still the case, and if so, can you (the Hurd) switch
> > to the one from util-linux?
>=20
> Well it's not clear cut to me, given that su
> isn't really Linux specific.
>=20
> Note Fedora and Suse use su from coreutils
> while debian use their own:
> http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/

"shadow" isn't really a Debian project.  it was an independent one that slo=
wly=20
died, so peeps at Debian decided to pick it up.  the alioth site is a gener=
ic=20
project hosting site that Debian maintains to help out its developers.

Gentoo uses su from the shadow package too which makes sense considering it=
=20
provides the user management utilities (adduser/deluser/etc...) as well as=
=20
things like `login`.

it would be nice to find a single home for these guys (su, login, sulogin) =
as=20
we've got overlap with at least 4 projects: coreutils shadow util-linux=20
sysvinit.
=2Dmike

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