SCO 'su' replacement

Doug Fields fields-doug at cs.yale.edu
Sun Apr 14 10:08:20 AEST 1991


In article <987 at dri500.dri.nl>, slootman at dri.nl (Paul Slootman) writes:
|> mju at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
|> >Recently, somebody mentioned a new version of 'su' for SCO Unix that
|> >sets the LUID (by munging around in /dev/kmem), and is generally free
|> >from the pervasive oddities that seem so common in "standard" SCO [...]
|> 
|> Me too! I wonder why this "luid" business is forced on us; even commands
|> such as "ct" don't work (you get a login, but then it complains about
|> the user id... *&^*$#^%#&^%#  :-(  )

This LUID is the only thing wrong with SCO's latest Unix. Everything else
is either fixable, ignorable, or (in certain circumstances) userful. You
can't even "exec login" anymore!

Doug
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