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From: katinsky@gauss.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Another kind of su program (source)
Message-ID: <191@gauss.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 05:11:27 EST
Article-I.D.: gauss.191
Posted: Wed Feb 18 05:11:27 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Feb-87 18:38:48 EST
References: <195@olamb.UUCP> <263@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU> <198@olamb.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: su(1), System administration, password-free su

> Running an interactive shell as root is always
> dangerous, but sus can take a single command and execute it with
> superuser priviledges! As in "sus vi /etc/passwd", it returns
> immediary to your own shell after completion of the vi session. Most
> of the users here who have been granted to use sus without password
> will normally only have to do single commands, and there sus has
> it's force.

What about "sus csh"? I can see that with your method a person would
not remain a superuser and forget about it in the normal case. But if
that is all that is gained, I would deem it more of an annoyance to
have to prefix all of my commands with "sus" than it is worth!



> 					Kim Chr. Madsen


					dmk
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