Subject: bug#5300: su command does not elevate user privilege to root when run inside term/ansi-term mode

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:30:32 -0500

Praveen A wrote:

> su command does not a make a normal user root when run inside term
> mode.

So what does happen then?

emacs -Q -f term
bash RET
bash> su
password RET

works fine for me. So does ssh.