BSD Ports

sysutils/runas 0.2.0 NetBSD

Wrapper around su for running a command as another user

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
2-clause-bsd
Categories
sysutils
Package size
6.1 KiB, 26.0 KiB installed

Description

Runas is a tool for running commands as another user. It is an alternative to "sudo", which has a history of serious security issues, and "su", which is inconvenient for anything but running a shell.

The runas command is a simple wrapper around "su" to streamline its use. It differs from "sudo" in that it requires the password of the target user rather than the calling user, and it requires no SUID permissions or configuration.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDsysutils/runas0.2.0
FreeBSDsysutils/runas0.2.0_1

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install runas

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/runas && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.