On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Michael Burger wrote:
> It's a home grown beast called slide...given to me by a guy who wrote
> it for use on his sun boxes.
>
> I only use it on boxes I admin, and the reason I use it is that it's
> like a combination of su and sudo, but without having to know the
> root password. As with sudo, you have to be a member of the group
> which will have access to the program. Like sudo, it allows you to
> run a single command and then drops you back to your shell. But,
> like su, you can enter a root shell and run multiple commands as
> necessary. Unlike su, however, you do not have to give anyone your
> root password, and if you don't want someone to have root access,
> anymore, you simply remove them from the group.
Uhmm sudo can do all of that. You can configure sudo to setup an
allowable command alias to allow things like "sudo su -", this would allow
a person to drop to a root shell and not need to know root's password.
Remove the user from the right user alias and they will no longer have
that access.
I guess I'm not sure I see what the advantage of your "replacement" is.
-- John
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