can't su as user

[Tyler Hall]

Sudo is nothing that exiting.  It's been around for a long time if I am
thinking of the right program.  I use to use it on a old box that I ran with
a friend.  I think it's purpose is, that you can give people rights to
programs that root runs, without giving them the root password.   I could be
totally wrong too, so if I am, please correct me.

-tyler



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bucky Goldstein" <buckyG@worldnet.att.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: can't su as user


> Jason,
>
> Well finally the development group let me in on their secret (not a real
> friendly bunch).
>
> Instead of su they have implemented something called sudo, I've never
> heard of it before.
>
> It's kewl.
>
> Happy T-day,
>
> Bucky
>
> PS Let's see if this post takes less than 24 hours to appear on the list
> since I edited my .netscape files
>
> Jason wrote:
> >
> > Bucky Goldstein wrote:
> [snip]
> > >
> > > Does anybody know how I can get su to work?
> >
> > What su are you using???
> >
> > --
> >
> >  Why GNU su does not support the wheel group (by Richard Stallman)
> > Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the
> > rest.  For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to
> > seize power by changing the  operator password  on  the  Twenex
> > system  and  keeping it secret from everyone else.  (I was able to
> > thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the
> > kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)
> >
> >  However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone.  Under the usual su
> > mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with
> > the ordinary users, he  can  tell the rest.  The "wheel group" feature
> > would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.
> > I'm  on  the  side  of  the  masses, not that of the rulers.  If you
> > are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do,
> > you might find this idea strange at first.
> --
> Imagine a world without hypothetical situations.
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