Using su under SCO 3.2.2

Wm E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at sixhub.UUCP
Sat Sep 22 13:51:09 AEST 1990


In article <13538 at netcom.UUCP> netnews at netcom.UUCP (USENET Administration) writes:
| We can't seem to use /bin/su for anything more than su-ing to root.
| Can't su to any other uid (it asks for a password, but always fails,
| as if the password were wrong).  Is this typical of C2 security?  Any way
| around it?

  I think there's something in admin which gets by this, but it's
definitely C2ish. I can live better with too much security than too
little.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen at sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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