Subject: Re: "su" in rescue?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/24/2004 12:50:32
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:30:13PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.

And if a site NEEDED su to use the dynamically linked database modules=20
(say governmental or contract security requirements), the site could just=
=20
disable the static su.

Take care,

Bill

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