Alternative for sudo on linux

[Brecht De Baets]

Hello,

Is there an alternative in unix for the sudo command on linux where you can execute a command as root (for example a mount).
Or is it necessary to write a scriptfile to do this. If so, can you please provide me the script-code ?

Regards,
Brecht

[Peter Godron]

Brecht,
not sure what you are after.

HP version of sudo ?
http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.8p12/
and thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1003784

An alternative to sudo? Why?
You could write a script and chmod set-user-id. See "man chmod"

[siva0123]

Hi,

Somewhere i 've heard of a tool called calife which claims to be an alternative to sudo but perhaps has the same functionality.

If you can do a google serach for calife i think you can find it.

Thanks,
Siva

[Martin Brachtl]

And do you know the super tool?

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/super-3.9.7/

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

If you use sudo on HP-UX, use the version that comes with Internet Express from http://software.hp.com

The version posted above has bugs and run/build time dependencies to resolve. The software.hp.com version has none of these problems.

sudo does a pretty good job, why look for an alternative?

SEP

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Brecht,

sudo for linux is same as sudo for hp-ux.

go for it.

knid regards
yogeeraj

[Brecht De Baets]

I didn't know that sudo also existed for unix. I have downloaded it from http://software.hp.com and will try to install it.

Thanks for the info,
Brecht

[Brecht De Baets]

Do I have to install sudo as user root ?

Regards,
Brecht

[Peter Godron]

Brecht,
yes.
Please see the documentation given in the thread link in my first post.

[Brecht De Baets]

I have successfully installed sudo and it's working fine.

Thanks,
Brecht