System command on FreeBSD...

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004, Chad McWilliams wrote:
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>> But I think parsing the output of 'who am i' will do what you 
>> need it to do.
>> 
>
>This was also the idea I came up with as a fallback.  The only problem
>is a lot of programs will have to be changed, so I wanted to make sure
>there wasn't another way.

One thing you can do with ``sudo'' is to create a shell script which is
allowed in the ``sudoers'' file, then pass arguments to that script that
execute whatever programs you really want to run.  This can make the job
easier than having to add multiple commands to the ``sudoers'', adding only
those that are appropriate for a particular class of users.

Bill
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