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Opens a shell as a different user without needing to authenticate as that user. |
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This is similar to the behavior of `su` but it allows to execute privileged |
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and/or commands as any other user without needing their password. |
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It doesn't use PAM, instead relies on shadow files and the passwd database |
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to check if the given password is correct. Support for different methods of |
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authentication is planned. |
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## Installing |
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To install use `make install` and to uninstall use `make uninstall`, all |
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other documentation is provided as man pages, `man us` will give general |
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information about the utility and how to use it and `man us.conf` contains |
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info about the config file format. |
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## Supported platforms |
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All platforms that store the encrypted password in `/etc/passwd` should be |
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supported, which to this day are none. Linux is supported through `shadow(3)` |
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and OpenBSD through its API. Support for more systems is planned. |
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This program is libc-agnostic as (apart from authentication) it is POSIX |
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compliant code. |
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