From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5300: su command does not elevate user privilege to root when run inside term/ansi-term mode Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:30:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3f2beab61001031107r794c6321x11410089d0e313af@mail.gmail.com> <3f2beab61001031124kdf1e7b2x8f2c73a36b5f2fa@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Glenn Morris , 5300@debbugs.gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262901162 19361 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2010 21:52:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5300@debbugs.gnu.org To: Praveen A Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 22:52:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NT0HN-0000LZ-Ie for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:52:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43143 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NT0HO-0007GW-3Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:52:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NT0E0-0002dN-5Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:49:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NT0Dv-0002WO-8o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:48:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57287 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NT0Dv-0002WA-4U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:48:55 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45265) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NT0Du-00061D-MT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:48:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSzwc-00029w-5F; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:31:02 -0500 X-Loop: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Glenn Morris , 5300@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:31:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5300 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5300-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5300.12628998408290 (code B ref 5300); Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:31:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5300) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Jan 2010 21:30:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSzwF-00029f-WE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:30:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSzwC-00029a-R6 for 5300@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:30:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSzw8-0006t0-KY; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:30:32 -0500 X-Spook: Forte Cocaine airframe War on Terrorism UFO unclassified X-Ran: )"&&"zfUaZ3M,tWMtN\+YmWXTG!M{(v4$f7?x2Ri|n&+_UeBKKzSwEOQ@K]Ggre8?sM0-p X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <3f2beab61001031124kdf1e7b2x8f2c73a36b5f2fa@mail.gmail.com> (Praveen A.'s message of "Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:54:47 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Spam-Score: -5.8 (-----) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:31:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:34048 Archived-At: Praveen A wrote: > su command does not a make a normal user root when run inside term > mode. So what does happen then? emacs -Q -f term bash RET bash> su password RET works fine for me. So does ssh.