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One of my servers was originally running Ubuntu Server 18.04 (Bionic) and a very common task would be to substitute user, eg. su like this:
su someusername
Usually I would use tab completion to avoid typing the entire username. However, after upgrading to Ubuntu Server 19.04 this no longer auto completes when pressing tab. When I press tab right after typing su I get a list of files instead of usernames.
I have verified that I have bash-completion installed and I even tried:
source /etc/bash_completion
However, it didn't help.
server bash auto-completion
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One of my servers was originally running Ubuntu Server 18.04 (Bionic) and a very common task would be to substitute user, eg. su like this:
su someusername
Usually I would use tab completion to avoid typing the entire username. However, after upgrading to Ubuntu Server 19.04 this no longer auto completes when pressing tab. When I press tab right after typing su I get a list of files instead of usernames.
I have verified that I have bash-completion installed and I even tried:
source /etc/bash_completion
However, it didn't help.
server bash auto-completion
asked Aug 13 at 10:18
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
3,7272 gold badges18 silver badges31 bronze badges
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I don't know how to restore the original behavior, but just wanted to note that it seems to be part of a greater change that replaces the implementation ofsuprovided by thelogin(shadow) package with one fromutil-linux- the latter provides its own completions file whereas the former apparently used a deprecated_suprovided by thebash-completionspackage. For background, see util-linux: Please use login/passwd implementations provided by util-linux
– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 14:40
1
... note that it apparently will complete usernames if you use one of the explicit optionssu -u,su --userorsu -(to start a login shell for the target user)
– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 15:42
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One of my servers was originally running Ubuntu Server 18.04 (Bionic) and a very common task would be to substitute user, eg. su like this:
su someusername
Usually I would use tab completion to avoid typing the entire username. However, after upgrading to Ubuntu Server 19.04 this no longer auto completes when pressing tab. When I press tab right after typing su I get a list of files instead of usernames.
I have verified that I have bash-completion installed and I even tried:
source /etc/bash_completion
However, it didn't help.
server bash auto-completion
asked Aug 13 at 10:18
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
3,7272 gold badges18 silver badges31 bronze badges
One of my servers was originally running Ubuntu Server 18.04 (Bionic) and a very common task would be to substitute user, eg. su like this:
su someusername
Usually I would use tab completion to avoid typing the entire username. However, after upgrading to Ubuntu Server 19.04 this no longer auto completes when pressing tab. When I press tab right after typing su I get a list of files instead of usernames.
I have verified that I have bash-completion installed and I even tried:
source /etc/bash_completion
However, it didn't help.
server bash auto-completion
server bash auto-completion
asked Aug 13 at 10:18
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
3,7272 gold badges18 silver badges31 bronze badges
asked Aug 13 at 10:18
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
3,7272 gold badges18 silver badges31 bronze badges
asked Aug 13 at 10:18
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
3,7272 gold badges18 silver badges31 bronze badges
asked Aug 13 at 10:18
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
3,7272 gold badges18 silver badges31 bronze badges
asked Aug 13 at 10:18
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
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I don't know how to restore the original behavior, but just wanted to note that it seems to be part of a greater change that replaces the implementation ofsuprovided by thelogin(shadow) package with one fromutil-linux- the latter provides its own completions file whereas the former apparently used a deprecated_suprovided by thebash-completionspackage. For background, see util-linux: Please use login/passwd implementations provided by util-linux
– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 14:40
1
... note that it apparently will complete usernames if you use one of the explicit optionssu -u,su --userorsu -(to start a login shell for the target user)
– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 15:42
add a comment
|
1
I don't know how to restore the original behavior, but just wanted to note that it seems to be part of a greater change that replaces the implementation ofsuprovided by thelogin(shadow) package with one fromutil-linux- the latter provides its own completions file whereas the former apparently used a deprecated_suprovided by thebash-completionspackage. For background, see util-linux: Please use login/passwd implementations provided by util-linux
– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 14:40
1
... note that it apparently will complete usernames if you use one of the explicit optionssu -u,su --userorsu -(to start a login shell for the target user)
– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 15:42
1
1
I don't know how to restore the original behavior, but just wanted to note that it seems to be part of a greater change that replaces the implementation of
su provided by the login (shadow) package with one from util-linux - the latter provides its own completions file whereas the former apparently used a deprecated _su provided by the bash-completions package. For background, see util-linux: Please use login/passwd implementations provided by util-linux– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 14:40
I don't know how to restore the original behavior, but just wanted to note that it seems to be part of a greater change that replaces the implementation of
su provided by the login (shadow) package with one from util-linux - the latter provides its own completions file whereas the former apparently used a deprecated _su provided by the bash-completions package. For background, see util-linux: Please use login/passwd implementations provided by util-linux– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 14:40
1
1
... note that it apparently will complete usernames if you use one of the explicit options
su -u, su --user or su - (to start a login shell for the target user)– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 15:42
... note that it apparently will complete usernames if you use one of the explicit options
su -u, su --user or su - (to start a login shell for the target user)– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 15:42
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I don't know how to restore the original behavior, but just wanted to note that it seems to be part of a greater change that replaces the implementation of
suprovided by thelogin(shadow) package with one fromutil-linux- the latter provides its own completions file whereas the former apparently used a deprecated_suprovided by thebash-completionspackage. For background, see util-linux: Please use login/passwd implementations provided by util-linux– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 14:40
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... note that it apparently will complete usernames if you use one of the explicit options
su -u,su --userorsu -(to start a login shell for the target user)– steeldriver
Aug 13 at 15:42