"Armin M. Warda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andrew Flegg recommends to
>> Open a pty and drive a root-enabled shell through `sudo gainroot'?
>
> Unfortunately, I do not know how to do that. I am not an experienced
> hacker or C coder, but I try to contribute. Can anybody provide some
> C code sniplet that demonstrates how I can open a pty and drive a
> root-enabled shell through sudo gainroot?
>
>> Then users will only have to ensure R&D mode is enabled without any
>> further hacking.
>
> Yes, that would be much better than hacking /etc/sudoers.
> Everybody who wants to use swap has to enable R&D mode anyway...
In my experience, continued use of R&D mode is a lot less stable than
changing /etc/sudoers and then switching back to normal mode. My
experience may have been random, but until that's proved I wouldn't
want to keep running in R&D mode all the time.
Neil
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