From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!esquire!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!greg Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: quick su with no problems Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2338 Posted: Tue Sep 21 16:15:41 1982 Received: Thu Sep 30 08:37:29 1982 References: sri-unix.3381 Actually, I did that on the V6 system I used to run -- users who were listed in the "system" group in /etc/group were not asked for passwords. Furthermore, since V6 didn't have the "su [name]" format, I implemented it so that "su command args...." simply executed "command args...." as the superuser and then returned you to your (presumabally non-privlenged) original mode. There was also a command "makeme[command args....]" that ran the command with the UID/GID of ; "su" was really "makeme root". Just adding to the controversy -- we found it very useful. Greg Noel, NCR ...ucbvax!sdcsvax!greg