[sudo-users] Understanding why processes launched by sudo do not inherit the controlling terminal

[Jon Seymour]

Todd,

I tracked down a RedHat bug report about this very issue which was  
closed as not a defect. [do not have reference handy right now]. It  
was closed for the completely spurious reason that no-one could  
possibly wish to
invoke an an interactives shell from a command launched with su -c.

I shall attempt to do battle with this mind-bendingly closed-minded  
myopia in the appropriate forum. Grrr!

jon.

On 19/06/2009, at 1:35 AM, "Todd C. Miller"  
<Todd.Miller at courtesan.com> wrote:

> In message <2cfc40320906180756p648260cdjc8e1ebc18694da1c at mail.gmail.com 
> >
>    so spake Jon Seymour (jon.seymour):
>
>> In other words, it has nothing to do with sudo at all - it's su
>> behaviour. Mmm. How strange.
>>
>> Thanks very much for suggestion that, since it has got me a lot  
>> closer
>> to understanding the issue. If you have any ideas about what to look
>> at next, I'd certainly love to hear them!
>
> This is probably related to the problems seen here:
> http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=304
>
> One person reported that the problem was caused by a PAM-related
> patch RedHat made to coreutils (which includes su).
>
> - todd