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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!trefoil.bogs.org!greg 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 Organization: BOGS Research Group Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5dbaha$1kn$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <32F89DE1.2F45@infohwy.com> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: bogslab.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5939 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