RE: 3.1.4 and su

RE: 3.1.4 and su

[jalexand]

In Reply to Your Message of Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00: 04:18 CDT
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 01:59:37 -0400
From: Jerry Alexandratos <jalexand@wlgore.com>

Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu> says:
: > 3.1.4 automatically puts itself in "priveleged" state when UID and EUID
: > are not equivalent.  That causes it to skip sourcing $HOME/.zshrc et. al.
: > 3.0.5 has no notion of "priveleged" and always sources the init files.
: 
: 3.0.5 does have privileged mode, and it does skip user startup files when
: UID != EUID.  Perhaps you confused this with restricted mode, which is
: new in 3.1.x.

I've checked these options.  Here's some output as myself:

   nomad[ 1:47AM] setopt
   autopushd
   nobeep
   noclobber
   histignoredups
   interactive
   interactivecomments
   monitor
   rmstarsilent
   shinstdin
   zle

   nomad[ 1:47AM] echo $UID $EUID $GID $EGID
   1000 1000 1000 1000

and now when I'm su'd:

   # setopt
   interactive
   monitor
   shinstdin
   zle

   # echo $UID $EUID $GID $EGID
   0 0 0 0

and when I'm su'd and I source ~/.zshrc:

   nomad# setopt
   autopushd
   nobeep
   noclobber
   histignoredups
   interactive
   interactivecomments
   monitor
   rmstarsilent
   shinstdin
   zle

   nomad# echo $UID $EUID $GID $EGID
   0 0 0 0

So I don't think it's a matter of priveleged or restricted options.  8(
And as I said earlier, this is the same .zshrc I was using for 3.0.5

Yeah, it's got me boggled too.

        --Jerry

ps-While I'm at it, why does the time in the prompt have a space in it
now?  (eg 3.1.4 => [ 1:47AM] while 3.0.5 => [1:47AM])


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Re: 3.1.4 and su

[Peter Stephenson]

jalexand@wlgore.com wrote:
> ps-While I'm at it, why does the time in the prompt have a space in it
> now?  (eg 3.1.4 => [ 1:47AM] while 3.0.5 => [1:47AM])

The time formats in the prompts are now strftime(3) compatible, so the
strftime sequence %l gives you the space to keep the string length
constant.  %L was added to give you the old behaviour.  See PROMPT
EXPANSION in the zshmisc manual page.  Try changing the appropriate
part of your prompt to %D{%L:%M%p} for 3.1.4.

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Re: 3.1.4 and su

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> 3.1.4 automatically puts itself in "priveleged" state when UID and EUID
> are not equivalent.  That causes it to skip sourcing $HOME/.zshrc et. al.
> 3.0.5 has no notion of "priveleged" and always sources the init files.

3.0.5 does have privileged mode, and it does skip user startup files when
UID != EUID.  Perhaps you confused this with restricted mode, which is
new in 3.1.x.

Zoli

Re: 3.1.4 and su

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 15,  5:13pm, Jerry Alexandratos wrote:
} Subject: 3.1.4 and su
}
} I've been using 3.1.4 for a while now, and I'm finally getting around to
} asking this question.
} 
} When I do a "su -m" my environment isn't kept.  Of course this isn't a
} problem under 3.0.5.

Depending on how you installed 3.1.4, it could be the case that your
$SHELL is not listed in /etc/shells.  That affects behavior of su -m.

It's also possible that the environment isn't kept under 3.0.5 either,
but that your init files are being sourced at startup of su -m in 3.0.5
yet are not sourced in 3.1.4.

3.1.4 automatically puts itself in "priveleged" state when UID and EUID
are not equivalent.  That causes it to skip sourcing $HOME/.zshrc et. al.
3.0.5 has no notion of "priveleged" and always sources the init files.

-- 
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3.1.4 and su

[Jerry Alexandratos]

I've been using 3.1.4 for a while now, and I'm finally getting around to
asking this question.

When I do a "su -m" my environment isn't kept.  Of course this isn't a
problem under 3.0.5.

I'm running this on FreeBSD-current (3.0) on a P5-150.

Thanks in advance...

        --Jerry

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