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Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior

Posted by timothy on from the rusty-shotgun's-right-twice-a-day dept.

Foofoobar writes "Just when you thought all was safe on the crazy patent front, Microsoft has come out of the obvious patent closet to file patent number 7617530, which basically duplicates the functionality of 'sudo' which is found in all Linux systems. PJ over at groklaw has a wonderful writeup on the entire fiasco."

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  1. So what, they can have it. by smoker2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    sudo is shit. What is the point anyway ? Either you've got root, or you assume it with sudo and have exactly the same privileges.

    sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file and the group vector is initialized based on the group file (unless the -P option was specified). If the invoking user is root or if the target user is the same as the invoking user, no pass- word is required.