>>6
With FreeBSD's
su, it's actually not:
$ su -c 'panstu'
Password:
su: only root may use -c
Kind of shitty, but that's how it is. It's a pretty trivial thing to change (effort-wise), and because of that I suspect there's a reason it's excessively verbose.
>>7
Hurr, I swear I thought it was GPL. Even so, it's additional bloat which doesn't belong in the base distribution (and a bitch to configure properly; an unnecessary bitch at that on a desktop machine where you don't need fine-grained access rights anyway).
I do want to rewrite the whole thing, but I don't know if I'll get around to it this weekend. I'm more than happy to apply patches to the running code, but I think I might just give you a shell account to the machine or something.
(As a side note, I'm not the only FreeBSD fag posting around here... I swear).