[lokisetup] obtaining root rights - one way or the other

Stephane Peter megastep at megastep.org
Tue Feb 19 13:59:13 EST 2002


On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 00:43, Timothee Besset wrote:
> I was looking at xsu to do that. It is not suid root, and relies on 'su'
> (which we can assume to be present everywhere :-) ). su takes a user and
> command argument, which could be used when X is not present either.

Cool, but how widespread is this command on distros? We should catalog
all such commands and come up with a script that tries them all...

-- 
Stephane Peter
Software Engineer
Codehost, Inc.




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