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Autzoo.1273 net.bugs.v7 utzoo!henry Wed Jan 13 17:25:11 1982 su ps display The standard su(1) just shows "su" as the command name of the shell it fires up. This can upset managerial types who think "su" is "superuser" and want to know why Joe Blow has superuser powers (actually, of course, Joe has done something like "su fred"). Not entirely clear this should be called a bug, it's more like an obscurity. Anyway, the fix is simple and goes roughly like this (line numbers are approximate because our su has other modifications):

30,34c30,38 1) char show[15]; /* What to show for shell on ps listing. */ > > if(argc > 1) { > nptr = argv[1]; > sprintf(show, "su %.8s", nptr); > } else { > nptr = "root"; > strcpy(show, "su"); > } 66c70 execl(shell, show, 0);

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