From: Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 5300@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5300: su command does not elevate user privilege to root when run inside term/ansi-term mode
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:22:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f2beab61001110752j7531ffa3r8380de641d45f999@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gtwrzty553.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2010/1/8 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
> Praveen A wrote:
>
>> su command does not a make a normal user root when run inside term
>> mode.
>
> So what does happen then?
It just gives you the normal user shell prompt (both for ssh and su)
pravi@savannah:~$ ssh localhost
pravi@localhost's password:
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pravi@savannah:~$
>
> emacs -Q -f term
> bash RET
> bash> su
> password RET
>
> works fine for me. So does ssh.
>
I'm using emacs 23.1+1-5 from debian testing, it is also failing with
a trunk built emacs too.
It just
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2010-01-03 19:24 ` bug#5300: su command does not elevate user privilege to root when run inside term/ansi-term mode Praveen A
2010-01-07 21:30 ` Glenn Morris
2010-01-11 15:52 ` Praveen A [this message]
2010-01-14 3:12 ` Glenn Morris
2010-01-14 8:57 ` Praveen A
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