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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 6302

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5300: su command does not elevate user privilege to root when run inside term/ansi-term mode
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.
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