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

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 18.05.2012 22:07, Nicolas François wrote:
>> $ su -c id
>> Password:
>> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>>  ...terminated.
>> $ su -
>> Password:
>> # ^D
>>  ...terminated.
>> $
>
> I cannot reproduce this.

I tried to investigate a bit more. It seems that I get the message when 
the libpam-systemd (44-1) package is also installed.

> 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?

I frankly don't see any in "su -c id".