Query regarding ksu.

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Sam,

>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.

If there are no tickets (in cache) for the required user, ksu ( without
using -n flag) will ask for a password, even if the source user is "root"
.Am i correct ?

-S

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> wrote:

> >>>>> "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
>