Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!cs.yale.edu!fields-doug From: fields-doug@cs.yale.edu (Doug Fields) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO 'su' replacement Message-ID: <30044@cs.yale.edu> Date: 14 Apr 91 00:08:20 GMT References: <987@dri500.dri.nl> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University, CS, New Haven, CT, Admiral's Account Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: hare.zoo.cs.yale.edu Originator: fields@hare.CS.Yale.Edu In article <987@dri500.dri.nl>, slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman) writes: |> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: |> >Recently, somebody mentioned a new version of 'su' for SCO Unix that |> >sets the LUID (by munging around in /dev/kmem), and is generally free |> >from the pervasive oddities that seem so common in "standard" SCO [...] |> |> Me too! I wonder why this "luid" business is forced on us; even commands |> such as "ct" don't work (you get a login, but then it complains about |> the user id... *&^*$#^%#&^%# :-( ) This LUID is the only thing wrong with SCO's latest Unix. Everything else is either fixable, ignorable, or (in certain circumstances) userful. You can't even "exec login" anymore! Doug -- Doug Fields -POB 1789 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520- (FAX) +1 203 661-2996 Internet: fields-doug@cs.yale.edu <-- Best to reach me. Voice: +1 203 436-0184 uucp: ...uunet!sir-alan!admiral!doug --------------------- Thank you Sir-Alan! BBS: (T2500) +1 203 661-2873, (HST/V.32) -1279, (V.32) -0450, (v29/MNP6) -2967