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From: ibeas@gmx.com (Álvar Ibeas)
To: 19477-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19477: 24.4; Init script from su terminal
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:34:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw638vgq.fsf_-_@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.17015.1420051024.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:36:26 -0500")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Emacs is behaving as documented.
>
> The `su' programs from coreutils (it's since been removed in favour of
> the util-linux one) and util-linux (as used by eg Red Hat) do not change
> LOGNAME or USER when su'ing to root.
>
> It seems that Debian's `su' comes from the `shadow' package and does
> change them.

Thanks for replying. I see now that most of the environment variables
are kept with the `-p' option.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-31 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-31 16:36 bug#19477: 24.4; Init script from su terminal Álvar Ibeas
2014-12-31 18:36 ` Glenn Morris
     [not found] ` <mailman.17015.1420051024.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-31 19:34   ` Álvar Ibeas [this message]
2015-01-02 19:01     ` Glenn Morris

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