Re: Perl Help!!!

On Tuesday 31 Aug 2004 6:01 pm, Rohan Almeida wrote:
>
> 2) super - better than sudo IMO
>
> Super allows specified users to execute scripts (or other commands) as
> if they were root; or it can set the uid, gid, and/or supplementary
> groups on a per-command basis before executing the command. It is
> intended to be a secure alternative to making scripts setuid root. Super
> also allows ordinary users to supply commands for execution by others;
> these execute with the uid, gid, and groups of the user offering the
> command.
>
> Super consults a ``super.tab'' file to see if the user is allowed to
> execute the requested command. If permission is granted, super will exec
> pgm [ args ], where pgm is the program that is associated with this
> command. Root is always permitted to execute any command in the super file.

Interesting. Never heard of super before. But your description more or less 
matches that of sudo too. How is super better than sudo?

- Sandip

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