[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: new su behaviour & exit status

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Nico Golde (nico at ngolde.de):
> Hi,
> because of the new su behaviour its no longer possible to 
> get any exit status from a command executed with su -c.
> If you use init scripts which need to invoke su and you dont 
> want to depend on sudo the init script will no longer 
> recognize segfaults or other failures in execution and will 
> always return 0 for $?.
> Thats the reason for #349580.
> 
> Does anyone knows a fix for this or have any useful links on 
> how to "workaround" this behaviour?


This has been reported in #360276 with a patch. We (shadow
maintainers) will review the patch, discuss it with upstream, and
hopefully upload shadow 4.0.15-2 this week-end. We have another issue
we want to see fixed anyway (#360179) and will also include the
long-awaited fix for #276419 (which has been announced in
-devel-announce).


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