File	Date	Author	Commit
.gitignore	2017-03-20	Oliver Schröder	[b4c9a7] - fixed a typo
AUTHORS	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
COPYING	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
ChangeLog	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
INSTALL	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
LIESMICH	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
Makefile.am	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
NEWS	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
README	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
autogen.sh	2014-01-29	Oliver Schroeder	[b91d50] added check for libcrypt
configure.ac	2014-01-29	Oliver Schroeder	[b91d50] added check for libcrypt
msu.c	2017-03-20	Oliver Schröder	[b4c9a7] - fixed a typo
msuedit	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import
msuuser	2011-08-25	Oliver Schroeder	[6bfc78] - initital import

Read Me

msu: README
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In large networks it may be necessary to delegate administrative tasks
to other users. The administrator has to create a lot of groups and the
helpers need to know a lot of passwords.
With msu this chaos has it's end.
Every user listed in /etc/msuuser may change his userid and groupid without
commiting a password. If the administrator don't want to give root-privileges
to every deputy, he may add a comma-seperated list of user accounts after
the user name.

NEW (since 2.x):

you can set options in /etc/msuuser 
	-user-auth: on
	User has to identify himself with his own password

	-echo-asterisk: on
	echo '*' while typing password


Example for /etc/msuuser

os		# os may change to everything (even root)
tk:informix	# tk may only change to informix
bo:news,ftp	# bo may change to news and ftp

msu: compiling and installing
-----------------------------
First step: configure msu
On most systems a "./configure" is sufficient. There are many options to
configure, two of them may be of interrest:

--sysconfdir DIR <- put msu-database into DIR (eg. /etc)
--bindir DIR     <- where the binary gets installed (eg. /usr/bin)

To build msu simply do a "make install" in the msu directory.