From: utzoo!decvax!cca!greep@Rand-Unix@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Blood-curdling su and newgrp
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2777
Posted: Wed Aug 18 22:08:48 1982
Received: Fri Aug 20 02:30:25 1982

Date: Sunday,  8 Aug 1982 00:33-PDT
Re: "If anything, su should be made more clumsy and harder to use..."
The fact that running as su is risky is a good reason for making it
easy to go in and out of su mode when you are doing things that
require it, such as modifying programs that run suid-root, since the
alternative is just staying in su mode for long periods of time (which
some people do).  (My solution to this is simply to run su once,
then do "su greep" to get out of su and control-D to get back in,
but that doesn't handle the environment problem.)

[Other than this, I agree completely with your message.]