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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: No su -c
Date: 13 Apr 1996 18:00:24 GMT
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robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch) writes:

> FreeBSD 2.1 doesn't appear to allow su login -c <something>.  I know there
> is a way of haveing the same effect by using echo but I can't remember
> how to do it. 

j@uriah 630% su root -c id
Password:
uid=0(root) gid=10 groups=10
j@uriah 631% echo id | su root
Password:
uid=0(root) gid=10 groups=10

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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