RE: Super User Launcher

[C Wayne Huling <wayne smb larc nasa gov>]

Fox, Kevin M writes:
> How about this:
> Setuid it, have the program look in its list, and if the user is not in the
> list, prompt for the root password. That way, if an administrator needs to
> do something quickly to an acount that is not normaly privledged to do so,
> the administrator still can...

I see no difference between that method, and the admin just doing an
su...  

The runas and sudo would make things easier for a predetermined group
of users.  When I am logged in as user <wayne> and need to install a
package, I just do a runas gnorpm and it works fine...