ksu has no man page?
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:59:44 UTC
So this is weird. Dayjob is a FreeBSD and kerberos shop, and we use the built in heimdal kerberos in base. I had an expired root password, and ksu decided to try to force a password change on me. (It then failed, because ipfw didn't have the privs to contact the kdc on the kpasswd port -- we only allow that from our shell servers, where people should be changing passwords). Anyway...the man page *does* exist in /usr/src/crypto/heimdal/appl/su/su.1, but that weird behavior is not mentioned. And apparently su has been removed from current kerberos cuts https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/blob/master/appl/Makefile.am lists "remove appl/su" in their changelog six years ago. So, um.... Why is FreeBSD not shipping the existing manpage as /man1/ksu.1? That would at least be something. (Yes, I know from conversations with cy@ that apparently there's some coming change to using MIT, which makes this a moot point. I'm just trying to read the tea leaves here). -Dan