From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Mar 13 15:41:55 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACB2D0A399 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:41:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from mx0.gentlemail.de (mx0.gentlemail.de [IPv6:2a00:e10:2800::a130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0AAB9159D for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:41:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from mh0.gentlemail.de (ezra.dcm1.omnilan.net [78.138.80.135]) by mx0.gentlemail.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id v2DFfrDb052641 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:41:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from titan.inop.mo1.omnilan.net (titan.inop.mo1.omnilan.net [IPv6:2001:a60:f0bb:1::3:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mh0.gentlemail.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 32482761; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:41:53 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <58C6BDC0.7070307@omnilan.de> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:41:52 +0100 From: Harry Schmalzbauer Organization: OmniLAN User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-DE; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100906 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sudo alternatives; for the minimalists Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: ACL 119 matched, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mx0.gentlemail.de [78.138.80.130]); Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:41:53 +0100 (CET) X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: mx0.gentlemail.de; Sender-ip: 78.138.80.135; Sender-helo: mh0.gentlemail.de; ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:41:55 -0000 Dear list, after more than two decades of daily FreeBSD usage, I'm still astonished that almost everybody else seems to use 'sudo'. I don't use it because I don't agree with the idea to authorize with the user password which I already used for current credentials. But, I'd like to profit from cached credentials, like I experienced on MacOS. I agree with 'su root -c', which prompts for the SuperUser password to get SuperUser priviledges and I once stumbled across a sudo-alternative which does the same, but I don't remember it's name and it seems there are a lot of more or less similar sudo-replacements. Unfortunately I haven't ever tried any of these and am always short in time. Is there any similar credential caching alternative like MacOS has? I'd highly appreciate suggestions, especially from people sharing my sudo-objections. Thanks, -harry