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From: greg@trefoil.bogs.org (Greg Shenaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Linux "sudo" equiv. for BSDi
Date: 6 Feb 1997 01:01:30 GMT
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Mike (mjeffers@infohwy.com) wrote:
: I've been told that there is an equivalent of Linux's "sudo" option
: available for BSDi, but the individual who mentioned this couldn't
: recall off the top of his head what it was called. 

: Anyone know of a program that can accomplish the same task as sudoer?

: If your not familiar with Sudoer it allows certain users "root-like"
: access to certain commands (ie, passwd, adduser, etc. etc...)

As far as I know, sudo has nothing to do with linux per se, it's
just a general unix utility.  I run version 1.3.1 on my BSDI systems.
I think you can get it at cs.colorado.edu.  When I compiled it, there
were two minor glitches--it was basically a piece of cake:

>Only two changes were needed for BSD/OS 2.01
>First, comment out the redefinition of __P in
>config.h--this wasn't picked up by configure.
>Second, comment out the declaration of yyerrok
>as an extern int--it is a macro.

-Greg