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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!news.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: GNU version of su? Date: 30 Sep 1995 04:54:20 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.95Sep29215420@time.cdrom.com> References: <44i0tb$sd7@xymox.dsw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com In-reply-to: pete@inquo.net's message of 29 Sep 1995 23:53:15 GMT In article <44i0tb$sd7@xymox.dsw.com> pete@inquo.net (Pete Kruckenberg) writes: I need to find a version of su that supports passing a command (usually -c). The GNU version of su that comes with Linux allows this. The su from 2.0.5R does not support such a thing (unless I'm missing it). This feature is now back in both FreeBSD-current and FreeBSD-stable, exists in the latest snapshot and will, of course, be in FreeBSD 2.1 Jordan -- Jordan