Re: [rox-devel] Re: Python questions

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:52:56PM +0100, Stephen Watson wrote:
> Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:59:37AM -0300, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> 
> > > BTW, your su module assumes that the superuser (#0) has username "root".
> > > This isn't always true, for example on my system (GoboLinux) where the
> > > superuser is named "gobo". Hmm... sudo has an option to set userid "#0"
> > > instead of username, but it seems that su does not support this syntax.
> > > But now I can't find where you actually call su??
> > 
> > suchild.sh
> > 
> > I've removed the word 'root'. No idea why it was there in the first
> > place.
> 
> Because it fails on Solaris if you use -c and a username is not specified.

Ah.

I've got it to detect the correct name to use now. Does that work
everywhere?


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