[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#670132: Useless " ...terminated." messaged at the end of su invocation

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:42:06AM +0200, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> Package: login
> Version: 1:4.1.5-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /bin/su
> 
> $ su -c id
> Password: 
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>  ...terminated.
> $ su -
> Password: 
> # ^D
>  ...terminated.
> $
> 
> This " ...terminated." message must be the most useless change to some core
> unix utility I've seen so far. When I've seen it the first time I was honestly
> thinking something broke or crashed due to a signal.
> 
> Bring back the "success = no output" philosophy please.

By any chance, are you using systemd ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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