Re: question about su and passwd

On Monday, October 27, 2003 11:01 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
> My interpretation of lky's message was that they wanted to change role/domain
> not SE Linux identity. Although now you mention this, the original message
> was unclear. Lky, please clarify what you desire.

Yes, that's my meaning. But thanks Steve too for clarifying about newrole.

> There is only one case that I can think of where such things are really
> needed, that is for logging in to an account with a non-root UID and staff_r,
> and then wanting to change to UID==0 and sysadm_r. Maybe a special-case
> program for this operation would be a better solution?

That's just what I want. I am too lazy to logout and login again:) Thanks!

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