On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 02:47:38PM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> >     Avery> Why would redhat make ksu (at least in the 7.2 distro)
> >     Avery> _not_ setuid root?  kinda pointless for root to be the only
> >     Avery> user who can ksu.
> 
> The "right" solution would probably be to have a PAM module that su uses
> to check ~targetuser/.k5users, similar to the PAM module that does
> ~targetuser/.rhosts checking for rlogin/rsh.
> 
> Just in case someone is bored enough to write code ;-)

See
<URL:http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_ksu/>.
It is probably tightly coupled with FreeBSD's PAM and SU
implementations.

Cheers,
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