[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#317264: login: Current su breaks pbuilder

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> Actually 'su <user> -- arg1 arg2' used to run '<shell> -c "arg1 arg2"'
> (ie arg1 and arg2 are grouped as one argument) and now it runs '<shell>
> arg1 arg2' and '<shell> -c arg1 arg2' with your patch.
> 
> That's why your patch doesn't work as arg2 is ignored.
> 
> Please find attached a new patch that works with both the old and new
> version of su (it is not possible to have a versioned dependency as it
> is the su from inside the chroot which is called).

Why is su changing behavior?

I have concerns wrt shell quoting, and I'd rather not require this 
patch.


regards,
	junichi
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