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

Karel Zak <[email protected]> Wed, 30 May 2012 15:50:57 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.hurd.devel.readers,gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general
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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:48:29PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2012 04:53:59 Karel Zak wrote:
> >  pidof
> >     - from sysvinit; not sure, probably into procps-ng
> 
> with the new project, this is probably possible
> 
> >  su
> >     - will be merged from coreutils into util-linux (2.22 ?)
> > 
> >  login
> >     - already merged Suse version into original login from utils-linux.
> >       The result is PAM-only login(1) with /etc/login.defs support.
> 
> requiring pam is a problem.  i won't be able to convert over to util-linux for 
> utils that are pam-only.

Why? More details, please :-)

IMHO is better to use PAM everywhere than duplicate non-PAM code and
assume that the code is correct and well tested. PAM is abstraction,
the final configuration don't have to be complicated.

    Karel


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