Subject: Re: "su" in rescue?
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/24/2004 14:30:13
itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino) writes:
> 	ok, i got enough comment.  so new proposal: could you please make
> 	/usr/bin/su a static binary?  it's a one-line Makefile change.

The problem with that is that it will mean that /usr/bin/su can't
handle things like dynamically linked database modules, for dealing
with things like hesiod and such.

I would suggest that the "right" thing is to create a statically
linked su *in addition* to the normal /usr/bin/su, and copy that into
/rescue. We could easily do the makefile machinery to handle that.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com