Query regarding ksu.

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 1 15:24:00 EDT 2010


>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

    Russ> Presumably if you ksu'd without a password or a ticket to
    Russ> another user, you wouldn't get Kerberos tickets for that user
    Russ> and it would just be acting like su.  Yes, root has no special
    Russ> ability to get tickets for another user without knowing that
    Russ> user's credentials.

If I ksu to a user whitout ticket I expect ksu to ask for the password
for which -n is supplied and/or the default that is inferred if -n is
not available.

--Sam



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