svn commit: r222770 - head/usr.bin/su
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 6 19:33:20 UTC 2011
Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Mon Jun 6 19:33:19 2011
New Revision: 222770
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222770
Log:
Attempt to clear up some confusion in the following example, by stating
the '-c' argument is passed to the shell, not to su(1), which would
indicate the login class.
'su -m <user> -c <command>'
Submitted by: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> (followup to 157078)
MFC after: 5 days
Modified:
head/usr.bin/su/su.1
Modified: head/usr.bin/su/su.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/su/su.1 Mon Jun 6 19:06:15 2011 (r222769)
+++ head/usr.bin/su/su.1 Mon Jun 6 19:33:19 2011 (r222770)
@@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ Note that the
option is required since user
.Dq man
does not have a valid shell by default.
+In this example,
+.Fl c
+is passed to the shell of the user
+.Dq man ,
+and is not interpreted as an argument to
+.Nm .
.It Li "su -m man -c 'catman /usr/share/man /usr/local/man'"
Same as above, but the target command consists of more than a
single word and hence is quoted for use with the
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