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. --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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