sudo vs. calife
While looking for something else in Synaptic, I saw a program called Calife. The description says:
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Hi,
other than the claim that it is more lightweight (less powerful?) than sudo I really do not see any significant difference to sudo. sudo also allows you to login as another user (including root) by providing your own password. AFAIK this is one major difference to su which requires the target users password. As for why it fails: probably because the configuration file /etc/calife.auth is not properly configured. You will have to add yourself to the calife users. But I really do not know how. Try man 5 calife.auth for further info on that. So after seeing that it does similiar (maybe less?) things as sudo and also in a similiar way the only answer to your question Why would I want it instead of sudo? would be: You probably don't. However, I also just downloaded it to have a look at it. And it did not convince me. Hope this helps a little. |
It did, thank you.
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