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Auteur: Dave Turner
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] sup - a "small is beautiful" tool for UNIX privilege escalation
On 17/03/16 17:32, Jim Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
>> dear devuaneers, suckless hackers and friends of simplicity
>>
> --- clipped
>> Basically sup is an hard-coded sudo.
>>
>> I adopted the software (wrote a mail to pancake, pending response) and
> ---- clipped the rest
>
> Hi,
>
> As an FYI: "sup" is not a unique name.
>
> sup[1] Software Upgrade Protocol version 20100519-1
>
> There is a name conflict with this package. There doesn't appear
> to be any active development[2], but there may be a few users[3].
> You can find sup in wheezy, jessie, stretch and sid.
>
> [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/sup
> [2] https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sup.html
> [3] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=sup
>
> Again, FYI.
>
> Jim
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Would anybody like to do a compare and contrast with 'doas' in OpenBSD?
OpenBSD were so vexed by sudo they ditched it and started from scratch.

I like to 'go with the flow' and so I suggest doas and we port that to
linux unless anybody could find a really good reason why it would be a
bad idea.
Guaranteed free of systemd too!


DaveT