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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: bug in su?? no fix (not a bug)
Message-ID: <906@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 15:50:07 EST
Article-I.D.: bucsb.906
Posted: Mon Apr 13 15:50:07 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Apr-87 00:33:11 EST
References: <5650004@wdl1.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
Organization: ODO (Organization for the Disorganization of Organization)
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In article <5650004@wdl1.UUCP> kimery@wdl1.UUCP (Sam Kimery) writes:
>Bug is as follows:
>
>log in as a normal user. su to root. horse around for a while.  try to 
>logout.  surprise!  you drop back to the normal user, then you attempt
>to logout.  You then become root again!  Not quite what you had in mind.

what?  this is exactly what i would expect.  i just logged onto the
AT&T 2B2 computer here and:

Console login: root
Passwd: wouldntyouliketoknow
[motd stuff deleted]
# su madd      <- this is my normal name
$ su root
Passwd: wouldntyouliketoknow
# [do stuff]
# ^D $ ^D # ^D
Console login:

i do believe that the AT&T-supplied sysV unix su operates correctly.

>			Sam Kimery

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