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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