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From: dank@cerebus.UUCP (Dan Kionka X5205)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Source wanted
Message-ID: <332@cerebus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 15:48:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 15:48:56 1987
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In article <1213@daemen.uucp> fox@daemen.uucp (Merlin) writes:
>
>    I am looking for the source to sus.c.
>    This program was just like su but also allowed a user
>    to execute a command after the sus call.  i.e.   
>        sus <user> <command>
>    Of course passwd validation was needed.
>    If someone has it could you e-mail it to me.

This can be done with a simple script:

	user=$1
	shift
	su $user << END
	$*
	END

A useful variation of this is a program we called "asroot" since it
allowed you to do a single command as root:

	su << END
	$*
	END