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ssu
commandThe ssu
command allows an unprivileged user to become root on
the local machine without changing his SFS credentials. ssu
invokes the command su
to become root. Thus, the access and
password checks needed to become root are identical to those of the
local operating system's su
command. ssu
also
runs /usr/local/lib/sfs-0.6/newaid
to alter the group
list so that SFS can recognize the root shell as belonging to the
original user.
The usage is as follows:
ssu [-f | -m | -l | -c command]
-f
-m
su
command.
-l
-c command
ssu
to tell su
to run command rather
than running a shell.
Note, ssu
does not work on some versions of Linux because of a
bug in Linux. To see if this bug is present, run the command su
root -c ps
. If this command stops with a signal, your su
command is broken and you cannot use ssu
.