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Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality
jones_supa writes: With a pull request systemd now supports a su command functional and can create privileged sessions that are fully isolated from the original session. The su command is seen as bad because what it is supposed to do is ambiguous. On one hand it's supposed to open a new session and change a number of execution context parameters, and on the other it's supposed to inherit a lot concepts from the originating session. Lennart Poettering's long story short: "`su` is really a broken concept. It will given you kind of a shell, and it's fine to use it for that, but it's not a full login, and shouldn't be mistaken for one." The replacement command provided by systemd is machinectl shell.
Su apt-get remove systemd --purge
Great to see that systemd is finally doing something about all of those cryptic command names that plague the unix ecosystem.
Upcoming systemd re-implementations of standard utilities:
ls to be replaced by filectl directory contents [pathname]
grep to be replaced by datactl file contents search [plaintext] (note: regexp no longer supported as it's ambiguous)
gimp to be replaced by imagectl open file filename draw box [x1,y1,x2,y2] draw line [x1,y1,x2,y2]...
How long until systemd absorbs emacs?
I guess this one is still relevant?
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