Another kind of su program (source)
katinsky at gauss.UUCP
katinsky at gauss.UUCP
Wed Feb 18 20:11:27 AEST 1987
> Running an interactive shell as root is always
> dangerous, but sus can take a single command and execute it with
> superuser priviledges! As in "sus vi /etc/passwd", it returns
> immediary to your own shell after completion of the vi session. Most
> of the users here who have been granted to use sus without password
> will normally only have to do single commands, and there sus has
> it's force.
What about "sus csh"? I can see that with your method a person would
not remain a superuser and forget about it in the normal case. But if
that is all that is gained, I would deem it more of an annoyance to
have to prefix all of my commands with "sus" than it is worth!
> Kim Chr. Madsen
dmk
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