From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 27 15:28:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46EA14EF2 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:28:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA57886; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:28:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199910272228.SAA57886@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:28:06 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mark Subject: RE: su-ing a user remotely Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Oct-99 Mark wrote: > > I'm looking for a tool which I think I'll have to end up making > myself. > > 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? Take a look at the sudo, super, and su2 ports and see if any of those can do what you need. > Thx. --- John Baldwin -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message