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  2. From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  4. Subject: Re: Becoming super
  5. Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:05:07 GMT
  6. Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
  7. Lines: 23
  8. Message-ID: <1gb3ajINN7fu@ope001.iao.ford.com>
  9. References: <1670093@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
  10. Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
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  12.  
  13. In article <1670093@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> zornow@hpcc01.corp.hp.com
  14. (Claudia Zornow) writes:
  15.  
  16. :I'm looking for information on how people become superuser
  17. :other than via the su(1) command.  I know that HP internal
  18.  
  19. They typically run unpatched Yellow Pages, but seriously...
  20.  
  21. :users sometimes use "su2"; does anyone outside HP use this?
  22. :Are there other commands obtained from various sources
  23. :which do the same thing?
  24.  
  25. I'd suggest checking out the "sudo" command.  There are various
  26. incarnations available from the Internet.  You'll probably get other
  27. feedback regarding sudo.  Another approach is to create UID 0 accounts
  28. for various people, identified by name or somesuch.
  29.  
  30.                         ...Mike
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  32.  Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
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