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Re: Susu and Rum patch for coreutils-5.2.1
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: Susu and Rum patch for coreutils-5.2.1 |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:31:42 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Alpt wrote:
> Ths susu patch brings the suauth functionality to coreutils.
> It is a very simple patch to `su', which takes a list of uids from
> /etc/susu_suauth. If a user is in the list, he can su to root without
> password.
'sudo' has this as functionality and more already. Instead of
changing 'su' it would be better to use the existing functionality of
'sudo'.
Bob