Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:56:12 +0100 |
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mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes: > >>> It appears that my su exec()s the shell, whereas the redhat and gentoo >>> su fork() and exec(). >> >> Yes, your su probably does not support PAM. > > I don't think it does. I still don't see the need to fork when using > PAM.
Because PAM needs to do some cleanup after the shell has exited.
Andreas.
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