Re: Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 07/25/05

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    To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:41:53 +0200

    Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> writes:
    > su(8) already has the behavior you want. (Now implemented in a PAM
    > module, and I forget the precise details.)

    You're probably thinking of the auth_as_self option in pam_unix(8).
    It was introduced by Mark four years ago.

    However, what sudo(1) has that su(8) lacks is the ability to control
    which commands the user is allowed to execute with elevated
    privileges.

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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