GNU bug report logs - #19191
24.4; su command in *shell* buffer does not work

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 白井彰 <okshirai <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 19927, 20555, 20686

Found in versions 24.4, 24.4.90

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 白井彰 <okshirai <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 19191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19191: 24.4; su command in *shell* buffer does not work
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:22:24 +0300

> From: 白井彰 <okshirai <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 02:08:51 +0900
> Cc: Akira Shirai <okshirai <at> gmail.com>
> 
> "su: Sorry" also occurs on emacs-24.5-rc1.

You need to find out why the shell's TTY is not a PTY device on your
system.  As Andreas pointed out, this is the reason for the problem.
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