From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 27 14:43:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF6414F1E for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA32608; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:43:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199910272143.OAA32608@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, maxiter@inetu.net Subject: Re: su-ing a user remotely In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:55:30 -0400 (EDT) >From: Mark >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 -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message