Strange behavior of su

[Stanley Friesen]

In article <667 at bu-cs.UUCP> root at bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>>  If you were becoming another
>>normal user, this probably means the current directory was inaccesable
>>to the new user.  In this case, su gives up quietly.  I think this is
>>a case there things could be a bit more verbose.
>>>(Actually it is the shell which gives up)
>
>You better explain which version of UNIX you believe this happens
>(su exits silently if '.' is not accessible.)
>
>I just tried it under 4.2bsd (vax), SYSVR2 (3b5) and SYSVR(1?) (PC7300)
>and all let me su to a non-priv'd user while in a directory they had
>no access to, of course:
>
	Hmm, curiouser and curiouser. I have had it happen on both
4.1 and 4.2 BSD. And I know it is the directory access since doing a
cd to a different directory always fixes it. Which *shell* were you
using, I was using 'csh'.
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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