Please - really tiny sudo replacement

'Please' aims to be little sudo without bells and whistles. Only pam authentication and executing command.

Name please fits into unix naming conventions. Where we have daemon instead of background process. We are killing processes, not closing processes. Now we can please to run privileged process.

Examples

Reboot system by unprivileged user:

$ please reboot

To get a file listing of an unreadable directory:

$ please ls /usr/local/protected

Run a root shell:

$ please -

Installation on Debian / Ubuntu

Install git, compiler and libpam-dev: apt-get install git build-essential libpam0g-dev
Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
Build and install: make && make install
Install (and edit) pam rules: cp pam.d/please.Debian /etc/pam.d/please

Installation on Fedora

Install git, compiler and pam-devel: dnf install git gcc pam-devel
Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
Build and install: make && make install
Install (and edit) pam rules: cp pam.d/please.Fedora /etc/pam.d/please

Installation on openSUSE

Install git, compiler and pam-devel: zypper install git gcc make pam-devel
Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
Build and install: make && make install
Install (and edit) pam rules: cp pam.d/please.openSUSE /etc/pam.d/please

Installation on FreeBSD

From package

pkg install please

From source

Install git: pkg install git or make install clean -C /usr/ports/devel/git
Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
Build and install: make && make install
Install (and edit) pam rules: cp pam.d/please.FreeBSD /usr/local/etc/pam.d/please

jwfh/please