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Bittrance
Asked: 2013-06-14 11:15:16 +0800 CST

"Session terminated, terminating shell...killed"

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I have several boxen running Debian Wheezy. They appear to have the highly annoying problem that pressing ctrl+c in a shell that has been su:d to root will kill su, not whatever is running in the root shell. This makes working with e.g. ping or tcpdump near impossible. As I understand it, the issue is debated at length in Debian bug #628843 but there seems to be no consensus.

[20:38] alias
zsu='su root -p -c $SHELL'
[20:38] zsu
Password:
zsh compinit: insecure directories and files, run compaudit for list.
Ignore insecure directories and files and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]? y
[20:38] <- I simply pressed ctrl+c
Session terminated, terminating shell...
[20:38]  ...killed.

I need to find a fix for this. Can I execute su differently or is there a replacement I can use instead? (Preferably no sudo and I would prefer not to allow ssh root login.)

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I ran into the same thing as I had a similar shell alias. I found in the manpage a "-s" option that seemed to resolve this for me:

       -s, --shell SHELL
       The shell that will be invoked.

    ie:

    zsu='su root -p -s $SHELL'
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