The advantages are purely subjective...my opinion:
The advantage is that it's a tool that I have been using for years, that
I'm more than familiar with, and that came from a trusted source.
The advantage is that I'm confortable with it, and that it doesn't require
that extra configuration.
I'm not saying that it's necessarily better than sudo/su. I'm not
recommending it to anyone, really. And to tell the truth, I'm not
distributing it outside of boxes that I control.
Please note, I was not noting it for the purpose of promoting my
application as a replacement for anything that would/could be used by
anyone else. I like it, I've been using it for years, it works, and
that's that. Remember, John...the name of the game with regard to Linux
is to be able to customize/tailor the system to your wants, needs and
desires. This particular program fills that niche for me.
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, John T. Douglass wrote:
> 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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