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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:43:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, maxiter@inetu.net
Subject:   Re: su-ing a user remotely
Message-ID:  <199910272143.OAA32608@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271650560.26715-100000@norad.inetu.net>

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>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:55:30 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Mark <maxiter@inetu.net>

>What I'm looking for....  Let's say there are two logins on a FreeBSD
>machine.  On ttyp0 is root, and user fred is logged in on ttyp1.  Fred
>can't su to root because he's not in wheel, and he doesn't/won't know the
>root pass.  Assuming I'm logged in a root, I'd like to be able to "bless"
>fred from my ttyp0 and 'upgrade' his login to root.

>Is this feasible or programatically realistic?  Is there such a tool?
>What would need to get changed to make this happen?

Why not (temporarily) update the "sudoers" file to permit "fred" the
level of access (to the requisite command(s))?

Assuming, of course, that "sudo" had been set up in the first place.

[Probably not really -hackers material....]

Cheers,
david
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David Wolfskill		dhw@whistle.com		UNIX System Administrator
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