On July 27, 2015 3:22:13 PM GMT+02:00, Theo Buehler <t...@math.ethz.ch> wrote: >On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 03:13:55PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote: >> >> > So omitting [as identity] allows me to run as every user, not just >as >> > root? Is this intentional? >> >> I think it's intentional. It's definitely what I would expect [as >identity] >> is a restrictive modifier. If you want to only be able to run as >root, you >> write "as root". > >Ok thanks, this makes sense, but it is not quite clear (to me) from the >docs that this is a "restrictive quantifier". > >The the bit I quoted from the man page on "as target" sais "The default >is root.", not "root and everybody else". (Sorry I should have written >"as target", not "as identity" in my mail) > >> How would you phrase things if it wasn't the case ?.. > >As indicated above I would probably write something like "as root and >every other user" instead of simply "as root".
Assuming you are properly quoting the docs, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, it should certainly not say "as root", but rather "as anyone".
