Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:59:04 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to keep track of root users? Message-ID: <19990701145904.A8289@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <377A6FA6.2967F7E1@ispro.net.tr> References: <0428AD6295E1D211AC4400A0C969E8A236F185@orsmsx43.jf.intel.com> <377A6FA6.2967F7E1@ispro.net.tr>
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Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> what is su2?
Similar to su. (You'd never have guessed that. :-) It allows you to
list usernames in /usr/local/etc/superusers (I think), who can become
any user using their own password. (e.g. I can "su2 news", where news
has an invalid "*" password, without having to su to root first, I
don't even need to know the root password.) Also individual users
can put other usernames in their ~/.su2rc, so if usera has userb in
~usera/.su2rc, userb can use his own password to become usera. The
program's documentation will probably explain its intended uses better
than I can. It's in the ports collection.
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