Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 29, 2015 @03:29AM from the big-and-professional-like-gnu dept.

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.

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Re: Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-29 04:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Which BSD would you suggest for desktop use? I'd like to test drive one out, preferably in a VM, or a distribution that had a "live DVD" so I can play with it before committing to metal. TIA.