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

[Nicolas François]

tags 670132 moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Hello,

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:42:06AM +0200, wavexx at thregr.org wrote:
> 
> $ su -c id
> Password: 
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>  ...terminated.
> $ su -
> Password: 
> # ^D
>  ...terminated.
> $

I cannot reproduce this.

> 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.

su reports this message " ...terminated" when it receives a signal and
force the termination of the executed command.

Is there any reason why su should have received a signal in your case?

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Nekral