Root users shell == no existant shell /bin/bash

[Simon L. Nielsen]

[Please don't top post...]

On 2004.07.08 12:55:19 -0300, Fernando Schapachnik wrote:
> En un mensaje anterior, Brandon Grace escribió:
> > For some reason su -c relates to "class" not "command" as in linux. I know
> > about the booting into single user mode also. This happends to be the
> > primary dns server and our secondary doesn't have the capacity to handle all
> > the queries. Any other suggestions?
>
> Looks like a bug in the man page:
>
> su - root -c id
> Password: ********
> uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 5(operator),
> 20(staff), 31(guest)

No the manual page is correct; what's happening here is that su
handles the "- root" arguments, and "-c id" is being passed to root's
login shell where -c tells the shell to run the rest of the arguments
as run commands.  That is, at least the behavior of -c both for sh and
tcsh.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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