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| author | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-06-06 19:33:19 +0000 |
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| committer | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-06-06 19:33:19 +0000 |
| commit | 7089418fe7fe633793ea8078bb498b27e0e563c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 764d660340aecdf33caed30f172c170f084a2d86 /usr.bin/su | |
| parent | b85f2958405471837cf29da0149697935f47e464 (diff) | |
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Attempt to clear up some confusion in the following example, by stating
the '-c' argument is passed to the shell, not to su(1), which would
indicate the login class.
'su -m <user> -c <command>'
Submitted by: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> (followup to 157078)
MFC after: 5 days
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/su')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/su/su.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/su/su.1 b/usr.bin/su/su.1 index 8025a23..d9180e3 100644 --- a/usr.bin/su/su.1 +++ b/usr.bin/su/su.1 @@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ Note that the option is required since user .Dq man does not have a valid shell by default. +In this example, +.Fl c +is passed to the shell of the user +.Dq man , +and is not interpreted as an argument to +.Nm . .It Li "su -m man -c 'catman /usr/share/man /usr/local/man'" Same as above, but the target command consists of more than a single word and hence is quoted for use with the |
