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Subject: Re: Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?
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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.

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