Search Results for "su"

...Use your built-in IR emitters and camera in combination with facial recognition to prove who you are. Using the central authentication system (PAM), works everywhere you would otherwise need your password: Login, lock screen, sudo, su, etc.

...You can browse through available and installed packages as a normal user. Anytime, you perform an action that requires 'root' privileges, you are asked to authenticate. tkPacman can use 'su', 'sudo', 'gksu' or 'kdesu'.

Friend is an extensible authentication and authorization library for Clojure Ring web applications. It streamlines user authentication, supports multiple workflows, and integrates role-based security cleanly into request handling. Ring middlewares for configuring and defining the scopes of authentication and authorization. Macros to clearly demarcate the scope of authentication and authorization within code that is "below" the level of Ring handlers where you can't use middlewares. Enables...

HMTsu (pronounced 'harmattan-su') is a gksu-like tool for N9 smartphone, frontend to devel-su, sudo and ariadne. It provides graphical password prompt and GUI to launch apps with root priveleges without the need to open terminal and run mentioned tools directly.

...Doing this can almost eliminate the possibility of getting viruses, malware, or other junk on the computer. This comes at a price though since the Windows system doesn't have an "su" command like the Unix/Linux OS does*. Because of this, a user not logged in as the administrator will need to log out of the machine and then back in as the administrator to do upgrades, installs, etc. Admin Console removes this step, by creating a "workspace" that runs with alternate credentials. The console allows the user to create shortcuts to applications which will run with whatever credentials are supplied...

Eselstall Secure Environment to Launch Software you don't Trust At aLL: Combined chroot/setuid tool to easily launch background processes (servers) in a confined environment. Eliminates the need for su in the changeroot directory.

chruid is a small but flexible replacement for a chroot + su kombo. i wrote it because i was in the need to chroot processes and having them run under a non-privileged uid/gid without having to install su (which would include pam, nss, ... overhead on som

wrapper for executing processes under different uid, depending on calling uid, gid, cmdline (also argv[0]) (keywords: uid switch, su, switch user, superuser, wrapper, alternate user id)