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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:28:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Mark <maxiter@inetu.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: su-ing a user remotely
Message-ID:  <199910272228.SAA57886@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271650560.26715-100000@norad.inetu.net>

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On 27-Oct-99 Mark wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a tool which I think I'll have to end up making
> myself.
> 
> What I'm looking for....  Let's say there are two logins on a FreeBSD
> machine.  On ttyp0 is root, and user fred is logged in on ttyp1. 
> Fred
> can't su to root because he's not in wheel, and he doesn't/won't know
> the
> root pass.  Assuming I'm logged in a root, I'd like to be able to
> "bless"
> fred from my ttyp0 and 'upgrade' his login to root.
> 
> Is this feasible or programatically realistic?  Is there such a tool?
> What would need to get changed to make this happen?

Take a look at the sudo, super, and su2 ports and see if any of those
can do what you need.

> Thx.

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