Package: login Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-2 Severity: normal File: /bin/su "su -" is supposed to produce the same set of environment variables that you'd get if the destination user had logged in directly, but it misses at least a few variables that should be unset:
$ su - root -c printenv | sort Password: COLORTERM=gnome-terminal DISPLAY=:0.0 HOME=/root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LOGNAME=root MAIL=/var/mail/root PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin PWD=/root SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=1 TERM=xterm USER=root _=/usr/bin/printenv XAUTHORITY=/home/zack/.Xauthority XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=27046b7f861957572ca0690800001f42-1296427797.583592-1983986059 DISPLAY, XAUTHORITY, and XDG_SESSION_COOKIE should not be set in the subsidiary shell. There may well be others -- this is just what I get from my own environment. (If you want to be able to do "su gui-command" and have it open up a window on your screen, you shouldn't be using "-" mode. This is one reason why non-"-" mode exists.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages login depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l login recommends no packages. login suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
