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

[Timothee Besset]

Well actually, what I'm thinking about is to bundle xsu with the setup
Since it's not an suid root, it can be run as is before setup.sh is
executed. I haven't actually looked at it yet, so I can't be completely
positive. The only external program we would rely on is 'su'.

TTimo

On 19 Feb 2002 10:59:13 -0800
Stephane Peter <megastep at megastep.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
>