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.

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Re:BSD is looking better all the time

[el_chicano]

make yourself a favour, migrate to Mac OS X directly

The minute that OS-X lets me put the minimize/maximize/close buttons on the correct corner of a window then I would consider it but thanks but no thanks. At my last job I had a work laptop that was a Mac but I could not get rid of it fast enough.

IMHO based on what I saw on my last job, competent Linux system admins run Linux and/or Windows and the ones using Macs were the Python-writing hipster trendroids who could not administer a Linux system if their life depended on it.