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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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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




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