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Looks like a patent for a novel user interface to sudo, not sudo itself.
by naz 17y ago
Looks like a patent for a novel user interface to sudo, not sudo itself.
- hristov 17y agoYou are right. I am not sure whether the claims as listed are novel and non-obvious, but they are definately not patenting sudo. In fact the interface they present is quite more complex than sudo. It looks like it shows you a bunch of other accounts and asks you whether you would like to log in as any of them.
- thaumaturgy 17y agosu - [username]
- nailer 17y agoSwitching to a named user you know and starting a login shell isn't the same as presenting a list of possible users who have the privilege. One possible hypothetical Unix equiv would be: command <failure message returns 'sudo -l' from everyone that does have access> <user interface to PAM-type app to prompt for credentials and 'sudo -l <command>' as one of the above users> This doesn't exist as far as I know.