effective vs. real user ID

[William R Ward]

Todd C. Miller writes:
>In message <15892.42975.687258.198412 at komodo.home.wards.net>
>	so spake  (bill):
>
>> Any chance such a knob could be added in a future version?
>
>It could be done as a compile-time option (via configure) but a
>run-time knob is hard for this since when sudoers is read in the
>parser really needs to know which user it is supposed to look up.

If I can concoct a patch, would you consider incorporating it into the
code base?

--Bill.

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