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On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:57:43PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:30:13PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>   | itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino) writes:
>   | > 	ok, i got enough comment.  so new proposal: could you please make
>   | > 	/usr/bin/su a static binary?  it's a one-line Makefile change.
>   |=20
>   | The problem with that is that it will mean that /usr/bin/su can't
>   | handle things like dynamically linked database modules, for dealing
>   | with things like hesiod and such.
>   |=20
>   | I would suggest that the "right" thing is to create a statically
>   | linked su *in addition* to the normal /usr/bin/su, and copy that into
>   | /rescue. We could easily do the makefile machinery to handle that.
>=20
> I still haven't seen a justification why this would be necessary.
> What is wrong with "boot -as" (or the platform equivalent), and
> repairing the problem with /rescue/init && /rescue/* ?

I think the person in question (I lost track of the origin of this thread) =
wants
to repair a system while remotely logged in as a non-root (when e.g. NFS /u=
sr has
gone away for some reason) without using a remote console.

Regards,
	-is

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