From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 1 7:43:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25291579D for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 07:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.1.2] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10zhMo-0004fV-00; Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:59:06 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10zhMn-0002Aa-00; Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:59:05 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:59:04 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to keep track of root users? Message-ID: <19990701145904.A8289@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <0428AD6295E1D211AC4400A0C969E8A236F185@orsmsx43.jf.intel.com> <377A6FA6.2967F7E1@ispro.net.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <377A6FA6.2967F7E1@ispro.net.tr> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message