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- Asroot
- ======
-
- This is the first (and presumably only) public release of a trivial
- little utility which I've been using for some years. Asroot allows
- any member of the group wheel to execute any program as if he was
- root. This utility has saved me countless logouts and logins.
-
-
- Asroot does not open up a larger security hole than using the su.wheel
- program as shipped by NeXT. Still, before installing asroot do a quick
-
- nidump group .
-
- first. If there is a user in the group wheel (or whatever you call
- the group with GID 0) on your machine whom you would not give your
- root password either throw him out of the group wheel or don't install
- asroot.
-
-
- For more details (such as they are), see the man page. To make
- asroot, just
-
- make
-
- To install it and its man page in the /usr/local hierarchy,
-
- su
- make install
-
-
- BTW, there is absolutely nothing in this program which makes it
- specific to root. If you want a utility which allows all members of
- the group wheel to execute programs as if they were the user 'news':
-
- cp asroot asnews
- chown news.news asnews
- chmod 4755 asnews
-
- The same can of course be done for any other user or group.
-
-
- Carl Edman 5-14-93
- <cedman@princeton.edu>
-