This does not give the new user ownership of your terminal's devices
so some some more fiddling is needed - E.G. you will need to start another
factotum and upas/fs. It does give you somthing like unix's su(1) command
but that is what you would use under *nix isn't it?

There's already an su-like tool: auth/login (excercise for the reader: alter auth/login to allow the host owner to switch without providing a password). You can also switch users more violently with the cons filesystem (/dev/hostowner).

-Steve

Tim Newsham
http://www.lava.net/~newsham/

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