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NAME

       super.tab - database of restricted commands for super(1)

DESCRIPTION

       The  super.tab  file  contains  the  restrictions  on  who  can execute
       commands with super(1).  It may also contain options  that  modify  the
       uid  and/or  gid  under which a command is run; the list of environment
       variables that are discarded before executing a  command,  and  so  on.
       The reader is expected to be familiar with the super(1) man page.

       If  you  are trying to avoid reading this lengthy man page, you need to
       know a few simple rules.  First, for a user to successfully  execute  a
       command by typing super commandName, the minimum entry in the super.tab
       is something like
            commandName   FullPathToCommand  userName
       For example, the entry
            cdmount   /usr/local/bin/cdmount  wally,dolly
       says that users wally and dolly may execute the  /usr/local/bin/cdmount
       program by typing super cdmount.

       Second,  when  you  define options in the super.tab file, remember that
       all options are orthogonal to each other, and it doesn’t matter in what
       order they appear on a control line.  Third, global options (defined on
       a :global or :global_options line) take effect  immediately  after  the
       defining line, are valid until the end of the input or until there is a
       countermanding global option or pattern, and are  overridden  by  local
       (per-command) options, which are defined on a regular control line.

       Although  super  has  a  great many options that you can set inside the
       super.tab file, none of them are required for security,  so  you  don’t
       have  to  be  intimately familiar with this entire document in order to
       use super securely.  The most important options that you will  probably
       want  to use are (a) a logging option like logfile=xxx or syslog=y; and
       (b)   patterns=shell,   so   that   the   default    regular-expression
       interpretation  of  wildcards  is changed to the more convenient shell-
       style glob patterns.

       Unless modified with options in  the  super.tab  file,  super  executes
       commands  using  effective  uid  root;  unchanged  real uid and gid; no
       supplementary groups; no open file descriptors save 0,  1,  and  2;  no
       environment variables except a few with safe values (see super(1)); and
       signal handling reset to the default.

       When super uses a command from a user-supplied super file (.supertab in
       the  user’s  home  directory)  these  rules  are modified: the real and
       effective uid and gid are set to the owner of the .supertab  file,  and
       the supplementary groups are set to the user’s login groups.

       If  the  special  supplementary  file  named  super.init  exists, it is
       implictly include at the start of super.tab and every  .supertab  file.
       The  file  resides in the same directory as super.tab and must be owned
       by root,  and  should  be  world-readable.   This  provides  a  uniform
       configuration  file applied to every super-executed command.  Note that
       the configuration file should contain entries that are appropriate  for
       use  in  both the super.tab file and any per-user supertab file.  It is
       not a good idea to  include  commands  in  the  super.init  file.   The
       variable  IS_USERTAB  is defined to be ‘‘yes’’ if super is processing a
       per-user .supertab file, and ‘‘no’’ otherwise.  The following  pair  of
       entries  could  be  used  in  a  super.init  file  to  allow  different
       initialization for regular use and per-user use:

              :if $IS_USERTAB == yes    :include /etc/super.init.per-user
              :if $IS_USERTAB != yes    :include /etc/super.init.as-root

       (The use of variables and conditional expressions is  explained  below,
       in  the  sections  Variables  and Conditionally-included Control Lines,
       respectively.)

       The super.tab file is formatted as a series of  control  lines  of  the
       form

            CmdPat  FullPath \
                         Options PermittedUsers PermittedTimes
       or
            CmdPat1::FullPath1 CmdPat2::FullPath2 ... \
                         Options PermittedUsers PermittedTimes
       or
            :BuiltinCmd arguments

       The  Options,  PermittedUsers, and PermittedTimes may be mixed together
       in any order.  At least  one  PermittedUsers  field  is  required,  but
       neither  Options  nor  PermittedTimes  are  required.  For each control
       line, Super matches the following:

              · the user-entered command to a CmdPat;

              · the {user,group,host} triplet to a PermittedUsers entry; and

              · the current  time  to  a  PermittedTimes  entry  (the  default
                     permits any time).

       If  these  conditions  are  not  satisfied, super ‘‘falls through’’ and
       tries the next control line.

       For example, the entry

              renice /etc/renice jack@hill jill@bucket time~8-17

       specifies that between hours 8:00 and 17:00, user Jack can  renice  any
       process on host hill, and user Jill can do so on host bucket, by simply
       typing super renice <args>  .

       Control lines begin  in  column  1,  and  the  fields  are  whitespace-
       separated.   Note that you can either use a single CmdPat and FullPath,
       separated by whitespace, or you can use a series of them in one control
       line by putting ‘::’ between each CmdPat and FullPath pair.

       Whitespace  may  be included in a field by enclosing text in single- or
       double-quotes.  The quoting is shell-like, in the sense that quotemarks
       don’t  have  to  surround  the entire field, and you can switch between
       quotemark types in a  single  entry.   For  instance,  X"a b"Yd e’  is
       equivalent  to  "Xa bYd e".   Comments begin with a ‘#’ and continue to
       the end of a line.

       There can also be blank or comment lines without any control data.

       A control line may  be  continued  by  preceding  the  newline  with  a
       backslash,  and  indenting the continuation line with whitespace.  When
       the multiple-line entry is read, the text just  before  the  backslash-
       newline  is  not  modified (any whitespace before the backslash will be
       kept),  and  the  backslash-newline-whitespace   sequence   is   either
       eliminated  entirely  or  treated  as  whitespace.  The rule is simple:
       following a letter, digit, or underscore, it is treated as  whitespace.
       Otherwise, it is eliminated.  This means that

              Cmd  File  user1\
                         user2\
                         user3

       is equivalent to

              Cmd  File  user1 user2 user3

       On the other hand,

              Cmd  File  {user1,\
                         user2,\
                         user3}

       is equivalent to

              Cmd  File  {user1,user2,user3}

       That is, the sensible interpretation is done in both cases.

       The  indentation  requirement  for continuation lines helps super catch
       typos.  Comments may be placed before each backslash-newline pair,  not
       just at the end of a continued control line.

The CmdPat Field

       In response to the user typing

              super cmd [ args ],

       the  cmd  is  searched  for  in the super.tab file.  The cmd is matched
       against each pattern CmdPat.

       Basic Use: Simple Command Patterns without Wildcards.

       Typically, a CmdPat just uses  plain  characters  without  any  special
       pattern-matching  characters,  so  a cmd must be the same as the CmdPat
       string.  For example:

              skill /usr/local/bin/skill   user1 user2 user3

       Here, any user in the list {user1, user2, user3} may type  super  skill
       to execute /usr/local/bin/skill.

       Advanced Use: Command Patterns with Wildcards.

       More generally, a CmdPat can be either an ed-style pattern (‘‘regex’’ —
       the BSD 4.x syntax used in  the  re_comp()/re_exec()  routines),  POSIX
       regular  expressions, or a Bourne-shell-style pattern.  You can set the
       pattern style using  the  global  option  patterns  (see  below).   The
       default  is  ‘‘regex’’  for  historical  reasons;  however, shell-style
       patterns are easier to use without errors, and most  sites  should  use
       shell-style  patterns.   In  all  cases  the  patterns  are extended to
       support csh-style brace expansion.  For instance, a{x,y,z}b stands  for
       the  set  of patterns axb ayb azb.  Don’t put any whitespace inside the
       braces!

       For convenience, there is always an implied set  of  braces  around  an
       entire  pattern.   This  means  that  any comma-separated list a,b,c is
       interpreted as {a,b,c}, and is very helpful so that you don’t  have  to
       worry  about  getting braces just right when you build complex lists of
       out of (say) variables containing other lists of users.

       All pattern matching is ‘‘anchored’’: patterns are forced to match  the
       entire cmd string.

       If  the CmdPat is matched and the other conditions are met (such as the
       user being in the PermittedUser list to execute this command), FullPath
       gives  the  name  of  the  actual  command  that  will be executed with
       execve().  If FullPath contains an  asterisk,  the  asterisk  is  first
       replaced by the user’s cmd.

       If  you  put  special  pattern-matching characters into the CmdPat, but
       don’t put an asterisk into FullPath, you have simply given more ways  a
       user  can  execute  the  same FullPath.  This isn’t useful, and in fact
       isn’t a good idea at all.  The power of using patterns  in  the  CmdPat
       comes  when  FullPath includes an asterisk.  For instance, a SysV-based
       host might have an entry in the super.tab file that looks like:

              /usr/bin/{lp,lpstat,disable,enable,cancel} * \
                             :operators uid=0

       This would allow anybody in the "operators" group to have  root  access
       to the line printer commands (the uid=0 tells super to set the real uid
       to 0, not just the effective uid).  For instance, if the user typed:

              super /usr/bin/disable some_printer

       then the FullPath (‘‘*’’) would be replaced by /usr/bin/disable,  which
       would be the command to exec.

       More conveniently, the super.tab file could have a line like:

              {lp,lpstat,disable,enable,cancel} /usr/bin/* \
                             :operators uid=0

       In this case, the user can type

              super disable some_printer

       The  asterisk-replacement  ability  also  lets a user execute any of an
       entire  directory  of  commands,  using  a  super.tab  entry  like  the
       following:

              op/* /usr/local/super/scripts/* :operators uid=0

       In this case, the user can type

              super op/xyz

       and super will execute /usr/local/super/scripts/op/xyz.

       The   asterisk-replacement   capability   is   useful  but  potentially
       dangerous, because it may unintentionally open the door to programs you
       hadn’t  intended to give away.  It is a sensible precaution to restrict
       asterisk-replacement to entries  where  the  valid-user  list  includes
       trusted users only.

       If  you  completely  trust  some users, but want logging of all actions
       executed as root, you could use:

              /*   *   ReallyReallyTrustedUsers
       or
              /.*   *   ReallyReallyTrustedUsers

       (depending    on    whether    patterns=shell,    patterns=regex,    or
       patterns=posix).

       The  trusted  users can now execute any command.  Note that the pattern
       begins with a slash, to ensure that the cmd must be an absolute path  —
       this helps avoid accidental execs of the wrong program.

       If  you were really going to give everything away as shown above, you’d
       probably want to exclude  any  public-area  workstations,  require  the
       trusted  users  to  periodically give their passwords, and set the real
       uid=root (instead of just the effective uid), so  the  entry  might  be
       modified to read something like:

              /*   *   TrustedUsers \
                       !{PatternsOfPublicWorkstations} \
                       password=y timeout=5 uid=0

The FullPath Field

       The  FullPath  field  gives the name of the actual command that will be
       executed, and if  it  contains  an  asterisk,  the  asterisk  is  first
       replaced by the user’s cmd string.  The FullPath can optionally contain
       a list of initial arguments that precede any arguments  passed  by  the
       user.  For example,

              xyz  "/usr/local/bin/blah -o1 -o2 -xrma b c" ...

       specifies  that  when  a  valid  user  types  super xyz, the command to
       execute is /usr/local/bin/blah and its arguments will be
              argv[1]: -o1
              argv[2]: -o2
              argv[3]: -xrm
              argv[4]: a b c
       followed by any arguments that the user put on the super command  line.
       Note:  asterisk  replacement  is  only done on the filename part of the
       FullPath, not on the arguments.  You can safely  include  asterisks  in
       the  argument  list.   For security, the user’s cmd may not contain any
       whitespace or backslashes.

       The FullPath string is parsed using rules similar to the  Bourne  shell
       rules for backslashes in quoted strings, namely:
              (a) backslash-newline is discarded;
              (b)  Otherwise,  if  outside  a  quoted substring, \x → plain x,
              which will not be treated as a delimiter, quotemark, or  comment
              character;
              (c) Otherwise, inside a quoted substring of FullPath:
                     \\\;
                     \qq, where q is the quote character that encloses the
                     FullPath string;
                     other backslashes are preserved: \x\x.

       After writing  a  command  with  such  backslash  escapes,  you  should
       certainly use ‘‘super -d cmd’’ to check that your args are being parsed
       as expected before you offer this command to your users.

       The same cmd can be listed several times  in  the  super.tab  file,  in
       which  case the first entry that allows the user to execute the command
       is chosen.  The EXAMPLES section shows how this can be useful.

Permitted Users

       Permitted users are those who may execute the specified Cmd’s.  Entries
       for  any  number  of  permitted  users  are  given after the CmdPat and
       FullPath fields.  Local options — options that apply  to  this  command
       only  —  may  also  appear  anywhere  after  the FullPath.  Options are
       distinguished from permitted users because options all  have  the  form
       key=value,  whereas  permitted-user  entries  may not contain unescaped
       equal signs.  Each whitespace-separated word is a pattern in one of the
       formats

            ·    [user~]user[:][@host]

            ·    [user~]:group[@host]

            ·    [user~]user[:group][@host]

       Note that the user~ part is optional.  The user’s login name must match
       the user pattern; the user must belong to a group  whose  name  matches
       the  group  pattern;  and the hostname must match the host pattern.  If
       the user, group, or host part is not given, there are no  corresponding
       restrictions.

       If  the  user is root, super acts as if all permitted-user patterns are
       preceded by the pattern user~root — that is, root’s  rule  is  default-
       allow,  instead  of  the default-deny rule that applies to all ordinary
       users.

       By default, the ‘‘group’’ field is first matched against  named  groups
       to  which  the  user belongs, and then against the user’s decimal gid —
       this allows the user to be put in a group in the /etc/passwd file  that
       isn’t  given a name in the /etc/group file.  (If you want to change the
       rules for using decimal gid,  see  the  use  of  MATCH_DECIMAL_UID  and
       MATCH_DECIMAL_GID in super.c for details.)

       Since  you  can  restrict users to particular hosts, a single super.tab
       file can be shared among many different machines.  If the host part  is
       of  the  form  +xyz, then xyz is interpreted as a netgroup name and any
       host in netgroup xyz is matched.  In that case, xyz is taken literally,
       and  not interpreted as a pattern to be matched.  Note: netgroup lookup
       is only implemented if the function innetgr() is available.

       If the host part doesn’t match the hostname, it might  be  because  the
       pattern  and  actual  hostnames  contain two different (but both valid)
       incomplete versions of the  fully-qualified  domain  name  (FQDN).   By
       default,  if  the  host  part  fails to match the hostname, the FQDN is
       looked up and all of the ways of naming the host  are  matched  against
       the  pattern.  For example, if the FQDN is spacely.sprockets.com, super
       will  first  try  spacely.sprockets.com,  then  spacely.sprockets,  and
       finally  spacely.   This  can  be turned off; see option gethostbyname.
       (You might want to turn it off  because  using  nameserver  lookup  can
       reduce  security  a  bit  — your host may query a nameserver on another
       host to obtain the FQDN, and (a) that  nameserver  or  an  intermediate
       host along the way could have been subverted, or (b) another host could
       impersonate the nameserver.  In either case your computer could receive
       incorrect hostnames.)

       The  patterns  for valid users, groups, and hosts follow the same rules
       for the CmdPats, described above: they can be entered with  either  ed-
       style  or  Bourne-shell-style patterns (depending on the setting of the
       patterns global option); csh-style brace expansion is allowed; and  all
       pattern  matching  is  ‘‘anchored’’:  patterns  are forced to match the
       entire username, groupname, or hostname.

       To make it easy  to  exclude  some  users/groups/hosts,  any  of  these
       patterns  can  be  negated  by  prefixing  the  pattern with ‘!’.  If a
       negated pattern is matched, the user may not execute the command,  even
       if there was a previous non-negated pattern that the user matched.  All
       patterns are read left-to-right, and the last matched pattern ‘‘wins’’.
       Thus if the user/group/host list is

              j.* !jo
              or
              user~j.* !user~jo

       then  the first entry allows any username beginning with ‘j’ to execute
       the command, but the second entry disallows user ‘jo’.  If  entered  in
       the reverse order,

              !jo j.*

       then  the  second  entry,  ‘j.*’,  allows  all users beginning ‘j’, and
       therefore the first entry has no effect.

Permitted Times

       The time condition restricts the  days  and  times  during  which  this
       command  may  be matched.  If the execution time isn’t acceptable, then
       super ignores the control line, and ‘‘falls through’’  to  inspect  the
       next  entry,  just as it does if the user/group/host aren’t acceptable.
       A time condition looks like:
            time~pattern

       with patterns that look like:

              Pattern                       Example
              hh[:mm]-hh[:mm][/dayname]     13:30-17/monday
              {<,>,<=,>=}hh[:mm][/dayname]  <17/tues
              dayname                       Friday

       The first form  explicitly  specifies  an  interval  during  which  the
       command  may  be  used.  Times may not go past midnight; to specify the
       night between Monday and Tuesday, you must do something like:
              time~{17:30-24:00/mon,0-8/tues}

       The second form for time patterns allows you to use logical  operators.
       The Monday-night example could equally have been rendered as:
              time~{>17:30/mon,<8/tues}
       (There  is  a  tiny  difference in the two examples above: in the first
       example, the time range includes 17:30 and 8:00; in the second example,
       the time range is 17:31-07:59.  Use time~{>=17:30/mon,<=8/tues} to make
       the interpretation identical to the first example.)

       If there are a series of time patterns,  they  are  evaluated  left-to-
       right, and the rightmost matching pattern is used.  To permit execution
       between 17:30 Monday  and  8:00  Tuesday,  but  exclude  0:00  to  1:00
       Tuesday, use:
              time~{>=17:30/mon,<=8/tues}  !time~{0-1/tues}

       By default, valid daynames are English, but if your system supports the
       setlocale(3) function, the global option lang=zzz will  set  the  valid
       names  to  those of locale zzz.  Valid daynames are either (a) the full
       names of the chosen language; (b) an official abbreviated day name  for
       that  language;  (c)  a  3-or-more  character  abbreviation of the full
       weekday; or (d) *, meaning any day.  (You can check  on  super’s  valid
       daynames  by  executing  super -d, which will show the default names of
       the weekdays at or near the top of its debugging output, and  show  the
       new  weekday  names  that  take  effect  when  the  lang=zzz  option is
       encountered.)

       Time patterns have a special defaulting rule when the execution time is
       not in one of the intervals in the time list:
              ·  if  all time patterns are negated, super permits execution at
              any time not in one of the listed intervals;
              · otherwise, there is at  least  one  non-negated  pattern,  and
              super  defaults to deny execution at times outside the specified
              acceptable intervals.
       The reason is that the natural interpretation of a  series  of  negated
       conditions, such as
              !time~{0-8,17-24} !time~{sat,sun}
       is  to infer that all other times are acceptable for execution.  On the
       other hand, if there are any ordinary, non-negated times, such as
              time~8-17/{mon,tues,wed,thu,fri}
       the natural interpretation is that any times not  explicitly  mentioned
       are not acceptable.

       Note  that  explicit  braces  are important in the above list.  If they
       were missing, the implied braces around the entire pattern would render
       this equivalent to
              time~8-17/mon time~tues time~wed time~thu time~fri
       That  is,  the  permitted  times  are  8-17h on Monday, and any time on
       Tuesday through Friday.

Global Conditions

       Global options and conditions affect the overall super processing.   To
       set them, you must use a line like

              :global             Global Options And Patterns
       or
              :global_options     Global Options And Patterns

       For backwards compatibility, you can alternatively use

              /         /         GlobalOptionsAndPatterns

       but this use is discouraged.

       These  so-called ‘‘global’’ options and conditions actually take effect
       immediately after the line on which they appear, and  are  valid  until
       the  end  of the input or until there is a countermanding global option
       or pattern.  To have a global option or pattern affect the entire file,
       you  must place it as the first non-comment line of the super.tab file.

       If there are any  PermittedUser  or  PermittedTime  conditions  on  the
       global settings line, they are applied to each following command in the
       super.tab file.  The conditions look like

              :global   cond cond ...  <> cond cond ...

       PermittedUser and PermittedTime conditions to the left  of  ‘‘<>’’  are
       processed  before the local (per-command) conditions; conditions to the
       right of ‘‘<>’’ are processed after  the  per-command  conditions.   If
       ‘‘<>’’  is  missing,  all  conditions  are  processed  after  the local
       conditions.  Example 1:

              :global   jan <> !@+badhosts

       says that user jan can  usually  execute  any  command,  but  under  no
       circumstances  will  a user on any host in netgroup badhosts be allowed
       to execute any command.  (User jan will not be  allowed  to  execute  a
       command  if the per-command conditions disallow it, or if jan is on one
       of the badhosts computers).

       Example 2:
              :global   !root <>

       changes root’s default setting from default-allow to default-deny, just
       like  ordinary  users.   Root will only be given execute permission for
       entries that explicitly allow root on the per-entry line.

       Global PermittedUser (PermittedTime) conditions take effect on the line
       on  which  they  are  defined, and are good until another set of global
       PermittedUser  (PermittedTime)  conditions  is   entered   on   another
       :global_option line.  That is, a new global condition line replaces any
       previous global conditions.

       One sensible approach to using global conditions is to  put  conditions
       that  allow users to execute commands before the per-command conditions
       are processed, and to put  negating  patterns  (for  users/groups/hosts
       that are never to be allowed to execute anything) after the per-command
       conditions.

       (Global options are discussed below, together with local options).

Conditionally-included Control Lines

       Control lines can be conditionally included by using  the  :if  control
       line.  This can be helpful when using a single super.tab file for hosts
       with different architectures, or hosts in different NIS  domains,  etc.
       The syntax is:

              :if  left   op   right     moreText

       The  expression  left  op  right is evaluated, and if true, moreText is
       evaluated as an ordinary control line.  The valid comparison  operators
       are:

            ·    ==   string equality
            ·    !=   string inequality
            ·    ~    glob match string left against pattern right
            ·    !~   negated glob-match.
       For  example,  you  could  include  a  file  of  commands only valid on
       Sun4-type machines as follows:

              :if $UNAME_MACHINE ~ sun* \
                       :include  /Path/To/Sun4/File
       (UNAME_MACHINE is a variable automatically defined by  super;  see  the
       following section on variables.)

       If  you  wanted to exclude Sun4c-type machines from using the file, you
       could modify this to be:

              :if $UNAME_MACHINE ~ sun* \
                  :if $UNAME_MACHINE != sun4c \
                       :include  /Path/To/Sun4/File

       There are no boolean operators provided, but  note  that  there  is  an
       implicit  boolean and available by concatenating :if commands, as shown
       in the second example above.

Variables

       Super offers variables to make it easier to  handle  entries  that  are
       duplicated  or  are  constructed  out  of other entries.  Variables are
       defined by typing

              :define VariableName VariableDefinition

       or they may be imported from the environment by using

              :getenv [EnvVarName...]

       If you use the  :getenv  command,  then  the  values  of  any  imported
       environment   variables   may   only  contain  the  following  ‘‘safe’’
       characters: -/:+._a-zA-Z0-9.  If ‘‘bad’’  characters  are  found  in  a
       value,  the  entire  value is replaced with an empty string.  Note that
       these imported variables do not enter the environment of  any  executed
       command; they simply become part of the super.tab variable set.

       The  VariableName  should  be  made  up only of letters, digits, and/or
       underscore.  (You can actually use any characters you wish,  but  super
       doesn’t  promise  to  work  correctly if you use characters outside the
       standard set.)

       The VariableDefinition begins at  the  first  non-whitespace  character
       after  the VariableName and continues up to but not including the final
       newline.  Comments embedded on  the  variable  definition  line(s)  are
       deleted   before   the  variable  definition  is  stored.   A  variable
       definition may be continued across multiple  lines  by  preceding  each
       newline  with  a  backslash,  and  indenting the continuation line with
       whitespace.  Just as for regular control lines, the  backslash-newline-
       whitespace  sequence  is  treated as whitespace if it follows a letter,
       digit, or underscore; otherwise, it is eliminated.  For example,

              :define  Users   user1,\
                               user2,\
                               user3
       and
              :define Users   user1,user2,user3

       are equivalent definitions.

       Unlike Makefiles, the variable definitions are not  scanned  first  and
       then  the file re-scanned.  Instead, variables take effect at the point
       they are defined, and remain in effect until they are re-defined or end
       of  file  —  thus variables definitions must precede their first use in
       the file.

       Variables may contain other variables (which  must  have  already  been
       defined).   Variable substitution is done when a line is first read.  A
       line is never re-scanned after variable substitution.

       Variables are used in a file by typing

              $VariableName

       or

              $(VariableName)

       The special variable $$ is replaced by a single ‘‘$’’.  Any other  name
       $X (where X is not a letter, digit, or underscore) is an error.

       Because  a  line  is  never re-scanned after variable substitution, the
       following sequence:

              :define A $$
              :define B A
              :define C $B $$B
              $C

       defines C to be simply ‘‘A $B’’.

       Variables can be helpful in grouping  users  or  hosts  together.   For
       example, you might restrict access to a command so that it can’t be run
       from a public-access workstation:
              :define Room103_WS hosta,hostb,hostc,hostd
              :define Room105_WS hoste,hostf,hostg,hosth
              :define Room106_WS +nonprivate
              :define PublicWorkstations $Room103_WS,$Room105_WS,$Room106_WS
              SomeCmd FullPathHere !@$(PublicWorkstations)

       In the above example, we have taken advantage  of  the  implied  braces
       that  are always placed around any pattern, so that the comma-separated
       list of workstations is brace-expanded into !@hosta !@hostb ... !@hoste
       !@hostf ... !@+nonprivate.

       Some variables are automatically defined by super.

       After  super  determines  whether it is processing a per-user .supertab
       (see super(1)), it  defines  IS_USERTAB  to  be  ‘‘yes’’  if  super  is
       processing a per-user .supertab file, and ‘‘no’’ otherwise.  The allows
       the super.init to act differently depending on how it is being invoked.

       When  the top-level super.tab file is opened, SUPER_OWNER is set to the
       login name of the owner, and SUPER_HOME is set to the home directory of
       the  owner.  This can be useful in per-user .supertab files, especially
       when they include files shared among several  accounts.   For  example,
       each person’s .supertab file could be simply

              :include /opt/proj/common.supertab owner=cristy

       Then,  the  /opt/proj/common.supertab  file  can  use  entries like the
       following:

              :global logfile=$SUPER_HOME/.superlog
              * /project/tools/$SUPER_OWNER/* :toolgroup

       Because the SUPER_HOME and SUPER_OWNER variables apply to the top-level
       per-user files, they always refer to per-user locations.

       Super  defines the built-in variable CALLER to be the the login name of
       the of account invoking super, and CALLER_HOME is the home directory of
       $CALLER.  Sample use:

              sam  /usr/sbin/sam  group~operator  uid=0 \
                                  env=DISPLAY \
                                  setenv=XAUTHORITY=$CALLER_HOME/.Xauthority
       Here,  the  operator  group  can  execute sam as root, and the GUI will
       display at the caller’s display (due to the use of env=DISPLAY).  Since
       the  XAUTHORITY environment variable is set to the caller’s .Xauthority
       file, this will give the caller access to the same display(s) to  which
       s/he already has access.

       The  following variables are defined when super starts up.  They can be
       useful in conditionally-included  lines  (:if  lines).   If  your  host
       doesn’t  supply  these functions, or doesn’t support some of the values
       that  super  tries  to  fetch,  the  corresponding  variable  will   be
       initialized  to  an empty string.  (Use super -b to print the names and
       values of all builtin variables.  This makes  it  simple  to  see  what
       variable values to check in :if lines.)

       From the gethostname() or sysinfo() function:
            · HOSTNAME            Hostname, possibly canonicalized.
            · HOST                Hostname, short (unqualified).

       From the getdomainname() function:
            · NIS_DOMAIN          domain set for NIS purposes.

       From the sysinfo() function:
            · SI_SYSNAME          Name of operating system.
            · SI_HOSTNAME         Name of node.
            · SI_RELEASE          Release of operating system.
            · SI_VERSION          Version field of utsname.
            · SI_MACHINE          Kind of machine.
            · SI_ARCHITECTURE     Instruction set arch.
            · SI_HW_SERIAL        Hardware serial number.
            · SI_HW_PROVIDER      Hardware manufacturer.
            · SI_SRPC_DOMAIN      Secure RPC domain.
            ·

       From the uname() function:
            · UNAME_SYSNAME       Operating system name.
            · UNAME_NODENAME      The nodename.
            · UNAME_RELEASE       Operating system release.
            · UNAME_VERSION       Operating system version.
            · UNAME_MACHINE       Machine hardware name (class).

Options

       The  configuration  file can specify a wide variety of options, such as
       requiring the  user’s  password  before  executing  some  commands,  or
       restricting the command-line arguments to match certain patterns.

       Options  are  handled  very  differently  from  conditions  (conditions
       include user, group, host, and time).  If a control  line’s  conditions
       aren’t  met, super falls through and tries the next control line in the
       file.  After finding an acceptable control line, super will execute the
       command  if  the options are satisfied; otherwise, it stops and doesn’t
       search the super.tab file any further.

       Options can be divided into (a) local options, which are defined  on  a
       regular  control  line,  and  apply  only to that control line; and (b)
       global options, which are defined on a :global or :global_options line,
       take  effect immediately after the line, and are valid until the end of
       the input or until there is a countermanding global option or  pattern.

       All  options  are  orthogonal to each other.  It doesn’t matter in what
       order they appear on a control line.

       Some options can be given as either local or global options.   If  both
       are used, the local setting overrides the global one.

       Two special names can be used with any of the options that take user or
       group  ids  as  arguments:  owner=xxx,  uid=xxx,   euid=xxx,   gid=xxx,
       egid=xxx, u+g=xxx, groups=xxx, addgroups=xxx.  These names are <owner>,
       meaning the owner of the file to be executed  (or  the  owner’s  group,
       whichever  is  appropriate  in  the context); and <caller>, meaning the
       owner or group of the user  calling  super.   The  angle  brackets  are
       literally part of the name.  These have the same values as the built-in
       variables CALLER and OWNER (see the  Variables  section,  above).   For
       example, the options
              gid=Foo uid=<caller>
       would change the group to Foo, but leave the uid unchanged.

       The recognized options are:

       Group 1.  Options Affecting How Superfiles Are Read and Processed.

       patterns=xxx
              (Global)  Specifies the pattern-matching type for conditions and
              options.  The string xxx must be one of:

              posix — patterns are POSIX regular  expressions.   You  can  use
                     ‘‘posix/extended’’   for  extended  regular  expressions;
                     ‘‘posix/icase’’ for case-insensitive regular expressions;
                     or  ‘‘posix/extended/icase’’ for both.  See your regular-
                     expression man pages for details.

              regex — patterns are ed-style  regular  expressions,  using  the
                     rules     embodied     in     the     BSD 4.x    routines
                     re_comp()/re_exec(), with the addition of csh-style brace
                     expansion.   This  is the default for historical reasons,
                     but most people prefer to use shell-style patterns  here,
                     and  it  is  recommended that you put patterns=shell (see
                     below) in your global options list.

              shell — patterns are approximately Bourne-shell style, with  the
                     addition  of  csh-style  brace  expansion and the special
                     [[chars]] pattern.  The patterns are formed from:

                     \x   force x to be a plain character;

                     ?    matches any single character;

                     *    matches any sequence of 0 or more chars;

                     [chars]   matches any single character in the set;

                     [^chars]  matches any single char NOT in the set;

                     [[chars]] When the pattern begins with [[, and ends  with
                             ]],  then  each and every character in the string
                             must match the  ordinary  square-bracket  pattern
                             [chars] (or [^chars]).

                     ^pat inverts the sense of the match — the string must NOT
                             match the pattern.

       lang=zzz
              (Global) This option sets the language  used  for  weekdays  (in
              time conditions).  Here, zzz may be any locale available on your
              host.  For example, lang=de would typically cause super  to  use
              German names.  The default is the C locale, hence English names.

       relative_path=y|n
              (Global)  If  y,  FullPathNames  can  be  relative  instead   of
              absolute.   By  default this is disallowed, because it is almost
              always a very foolish (unsafe) thing to do.

       group_slash=y|n
              (Global) If y, group names can contain a slash.  By default this
              is  disallowed,  so  that  super  can catch certain typos in the
              super.tab file.  (Namely, super can catch  errors  in  which  an
              entry is of the form Cmd:File instead of the required Cmd::File.
              The  trouble  is  that   Cmd:File   looks   syntactically   like
              user:group,  and can therefore be mistaken for a valid part of a
              control line.  But the filename will contain a  slash  —  unless
              you   have  unwisely  enabled  the  relative_path  option  —  so
              disallowing  slashes  allows  super  to   flag   the   line   as
              syntactically invalid.)

       gethostbyname=y|n
              (Global)  Enables or disables the use of gethostbyname() to find
              the fully-qualified domain  name  (see  the  discussion  in  the
              Permitted  Users  section,  which  describes the security issues
              associated with enabling this  option.)   Default:  enabled  (if
              your host supports gethostbyname()).

       Group 2.  Logging Options.

       logfile=fname
              (Global)  Enables  logging  to a local file.  Each invocation of
              super (aside from ones for help)  generates  an  entry  in  file
              fname.

       loguid=xxx
              (Global)  If  logging is enabled with logfile=fname, the logfile
              will be opened for  writing  using  uid=xxx  (can  be  either  a
              username  or  numeric  uid).  This option allows you to have the
              file created/opened under another uid that does have  cross-host
              access,   such   as   the   uid   of  a  system  manager.   (See
              timestampuid=xxx for additional comments).  Default: loguid=0.

       mail="mail-command"
              (Local|Global) Notices of super failures are piped to the  shell
              command mail-command.  This is independent of the setting of the
              logfile and syslog options.  For instance, mail="mail  -s  Super
              joeblow"  will cause error messages to be mailed to user joeblow
              (on some systems you may need to  substitute  mailx  for  mail).
              Note:  the mail-command is executed by passing it as an argument
              to popen(3).  This is safe  to  execute  because  of  the  clean
              environment assured by super.

       mailany="mail-command"
              (Local|Global) This is identical to the mail option, except that
              mailany sends notification of successful invocations as well  as
              errors.

       rlog_host=hostname
              (Global)  Tells  super  which host’s syslog daemon is to receive
              log messages when option syslog=y is enabled.  The option has no
              effect  if  used  after  the  first  message is logged: once the
              logger has been opened, it is not re-opened if the rlog_host  is
              changed.   Default:  the  local  host.   Note: One could instead
              configure the syslog.conf file to  forward  the  messages  to  a
              central machine.

       syslog=y|n
              (Global) Logging information is passed to the logs maintained by
              the syslogd daemon.  This is independent of the setting  of  the
              logfile option (above).  Error messages are by default logged at
              priority LOG_ERR and successful attempts  to  run  programs  are
              logged  at  priority  LOG_INFO.   (See  options syslog_error and
              syslog_success to change these levels.)

       syslog_error=xxx
              (Global) If syslog is enabled (see the syslog option),  then  by
              default  super logs error messages using syslog(3) code LOG_ERR.
              This option changes the code to xxx, where xxx  is  any  of  the
              usual   syslog(3)   priority  and/or  facility  codes,  such  as
              LOG_WARNING or LOG_LOCAL7|LOG_ERR.  The  LOG_xxx  words  can  be
              separated  by  whitespace,  dot, and/or ‘‘|’’, but of course you
              must use quotes if whitespace is included.  The  leading  "LOG_"
              is  optional,  and  the value is case-insensitive.  For example,
              LOG_LOCAL7|LOG_ERR can alternatively be written  as  local7.err.
              Super  doesn’t  know  what  are  sensible codes — it’s up to the
              super.tab writer to choose meaningful values.  For instance,  if
              you put
                   syslog_error="LOG_INFO | LOG_ERR" (bad!)
              then  you will get both those values or’d together and passed to
              syslog().

       syslog_success=xxx
              (Global) This option is just like syslog_error, except  that  it
              applies   to  successful-execution  messages  instead  of  error
              messages.  Default: LOG_INFO .

       Group 3.  Extra Help Information for Users.

       info=xxx
              (Local) The string xxx is printed when giving help to users.  It
              should  be set to a helpful one-line description of the command.

       Group 4.  Password and Other Restrictions Before Approval.

       maxlen=[mmm,]nnn
              (Local|Global) Each argument must be no more than mmm characters
              long (including the terminating null), and the sum length of all
              arguments must not exceed  nnn  characters.   A  negative  value
              means  that  no  limit is applied.  The defaults for mmm and nnn
              are set by the compile-time manifest  constants  MAXLEN1ARG  and
              MAXLENARGS,  which  are  usually  1000  and  10,000  characters,
              respectively.

       nargs=[mmm-]nnn
              (Local|Global) The user is required to enter mmm - nnn arguments
              to  the  command.   If  just  nnn  is given, the user must enter
              exactly nnn arguments.  These arguments are in addition  to  any
              arguments  entered  in  the  command part of the super.tab file.
              The default is  to  allow  the  user  to  enter  any  number  of
              arguments.

       arg[mmm-]nnn=sss
              (Local|Global)   This   means  that  the  nnn’th  or  mmm-nnn’th
              arguments must  match  pattern  sss.   (Arguments  are  numbered
              from 1.)   The pattern must be enclosed in quotes if it contains
              whitespace.  Note that this option does not require  that  there
              be  mmm-nnn  arguments;  it  only says what those arguments must
              look like, if entered.  You can use this option several times on
              one  line,  with  different  mmm-nnn  values each time, to apply
              different patterns to different arguments.   If  more  than  one
              pattern  applies to a given argument, all of those patterns must
              be matched.  An empty pattern ("") is special: it has the effect
              of  unsetting  (removing) any previous patterns for the matching
              [mmm-]nnn.  This can be useful if you  want  to  change  :global
              settings,  instead  of  adding  to  them.   If  there  are local
              arg[mmm-]nnn  option(s),  they  completely  replace  all  global
              arg[mmm-]nnn  values,  even  if  the local mmm-nnn values do not
              overlap with the global values.

       owner=xxx
              (Local|Global) This option specifies that  the  FullPath  (after
              asterisk-substitution)  must  be  owned by user (or uid) xxx, or
              else it won’t be executed.

       auth=y|n
              (Local|Global) If y, user authentication is required before  the
              command  is executed.  The default authentication method is Unix
              password  authentication.   See  also  the  options  authprompt,
              authtype,  authuser, timeout, and renewtime, and be sure to read
              the warning under timestampbyhost.

       authprompt=message
              (Local|Global) Specifies the prompt used when authenticating the
              user   (usually   the   default   prompt   is  fine).   Variable
              substitution is done on the prompt before printing.

       authtype=type
              (Local|Global) Specifies the type of  authentication  used  when
              auth=y.  The type can be password or pam (if PAM is supported on
              your system).  The default is password.  If  PAM  authentication
              is  used, super uses the service name ‘‘super’’ when looking for
              authentication in your system PAM configuration files.

       authuser=username
              (Local|Global)  Specifies  the  user  whose  authentication   is
              required  when  auth=y.   The  default is the password (or other
              authentication) for the user who invoked super.

       password=y|n
              (Local|Global) This is a deprecated option; it has been replaced
              by  the  auth and authtype options.  Password=y is equivalent to
              auth=y authtype=password  ;  and  Password=n  is  equivalent  to
              auth=n.

       renewtime=y|n
              (Global)  If  y,  the  user’s  timestamp  file is updated to the
              current time whenever  an  authentication-requiring  command  is
              executed.   The  result  is  that a user who frequently executes
              authentication-requiring commands won’t need to  re-authenticate
              until  more  than  timeout  minutes  elapse  since the last such
              command.  Otherwise,  the  user  will  need  to  re-authenticate
              timeout  minutes  after last entering the password.  The default
              is n.

       timeout=m
              (Local|Global) User authentication is good for m  minutes;  that
              is,  the command may be executed without re-authenticating for m
              minutes after the previous  authentication  (for  any  command).
              After  m  minutes,  user  authentication  will be required again
              before the command can be  executed.   If  timeout  is  zero  or
              negative,  authentication  is required every time the command is
              used.  The timestamp for  user  usr  is  recorded  in  the  file
              TIMESTAMP_DIR  directory  (see  timestampbyhost  and  the  FILES
              section, below).

       timestampbyhost=y|n
              (Global) If y (default), the timestamp  files  are  given  names
              that  are  unique  on  each host.  For instance, jouser@somehost
              will     be     given      a      timestamp      file      named
              TIMESTAMP_DIR/somehost/jouser, where TIMESTAMP_DIR is defined in
              the FILES section.  If timestmapbyhost=n,  the  timestamp  files
              are given names that are unique to each user, but not unique per
              host.  For  instance,  jouser  on  any  host  will  be  given  a
              timestamp file named TIMESTAMP_DIR/jouser.
              WARNING:  The  hostname  used  is that from gethostname().  Note
              that this is not necessarily  unique  across  internet  domains,
              since  it  is  frequently  not  a  fully-qualified  domain name.
              Therefore you should not share timestamp directories with  hosts
              outside  the  local  domain.   (Generally such connections don’t
              exist, but one could crossmount the timestamp directory disk...)

       timestampuid=xxx
              If  a  password is required, the time at which it was entered is
              recorded as the mtime of a timestamp file.  The  timestamp  file
              is normally created with owner=root; however, this option causes
              it to be created/modified using uid=xxx (xxx  can  be  either  a
              username  or numeric uid).  This option is useful when a network
              of hosts are sharing a cross-mounted timestamp directory.   Note
              that  networks are typically configured to not allow root on one
              host to have root access to files on another  host,  which  will
              forbid  root  on  other  hosts  from creating the timestamp file
              unless it’s world-writable.  This option allows you to have  the
              file  created/opened under another uid that does have cross-host
              access,  such  as  the  uid  of  a  system  manager.    Default:
              timestampuid=0.

       checkvar=name[,...]
              (Local)  Each  name  in  the comma-separated list is a super.tab
              variable which the user must enter at a prompt from super.   For
              example, you might have a super shutdown command which halts the
              computer.  If you execute this on the wrong host  there  may  be
              some very annoyed users!  So, you can include checkvar=HOST, and
              the user will have to type the correct hostname in response to a
              prompt from super.

       Group 5.  Modifications to Environment Before Executing Command.

       uid=xxx
              (Local)  Sets  the  real  uid  to  xxx just before executing the
              command.  If option euid isn’t used, also sets the effective uid
              to  xxx.  The uid xxx is first tried as a login name and then as
              a number.  If the options uid=xxx and u+g=yyy  (see  below)  are
              used  together,  then the u+g option only sets the group id, and
              not the user id.

       euid=xxx
              (Local) Sets the effective uid to xxx just before executing  the
              command.  The uid xxx is first tried as a login name and then as
              a number.

       gid=yyy
              (Local) Sets the real gid  to  yyy  just  before  executing  the
              command.  If option egid isn’t used, also sets the effective gid
              to yyy.  The gid yyy is first tried as a group name and then  as
              a number.

       egid=yyy
              (Local)  Sets the effective gid to yyy just before executing the
              command.  The gid yyy is first tried as a group name and then as
              a number.

       u+g=zzz
              (Local)  Sets  the  real uid to zzz, the real gid to zzz’s login
              gid, and the supplementary groups list  to  zzz’s  supplementary
              groups  just  before  executing the command.  If the euid and/or
              egid option aren’t given, the effective uid and/or gid are  also
              set.   The options u+g and gid=yyy conflict with each other, and
              may not be used together.

       groups=name[,...]
              (Local|Global) By default, the user’s supplementary groups  list
              is  deleted before executing a command (unless the option u+g is
              used).  This option instead sets the group list to name[,...]

       addgroups=name[,...]
              (Local|Global)  This  option  adds  the  listed  groups  to  the
              supplementary  groups  list.  Since the default is to provide an
              empty supplementary groups list, this  option  usually  has  the
              same effect as the plain groups option.  However, if the options
              u+g=foo addgroups=a,b,c are used, then the supplementary  groups
              list  is  composed of user foo’s supplementary groups plus a, b,
              and c.

       argv0=name
              (Local) Execute the command will execute with its first argument
              (that  is,  the argument conventionally denoted as argv[0]), set
              to name.  As a convenient shorthand, the value <path> (the angle
              brackets  are  literally  part  of  the  name)  means to use the
              FullPath specified in the super.tab file.  By  default,  argv[0]
              is  set  to  Cmd,  the  name of the super command invoked by the
              user, regardless of the actual  path  being  invoked.   However,
              some  programs  will  not  run  properly  unless  argv[0]  has a
              particular value.  For example, suppose you want to permit users
              to safely mount zip disks, and you use something like:
                   zipmount "/etc/mount -o nosuid /dev/xz10  /zip"
              This command will fail if /etc/mount requires that it be invoked
              with argv[0] set to [.../]mount, because super will use the name
              zipmount.  However, you can put argv0=<path> into your super.tab
              file, and then the mount command will work properly.

       env=name[,...]
              (Global|Local) Each name  in  the  comma-separated  list  is  an
              environment   variable   which  should  not  be  deleted  before
              executing the Cmd; these variables are in addition to the normal
              variables  created  or  passed  by super (TERM, IFS, PATH, USER,
              LOGNAME,  HOME,  ORIG_USER,  ORIG_LOGNAME,   ORIG_HOME,   LINES,
              COLUMNS,  SUPERCMD).  Be careful here; environment variables can
              sometimes be abused to create security holes.  If  you  use  the
              option  more than once, the later instance overrides the earlier
              one, instead of adding to it.  Similarly, using it  as  a  local
              option completely overrides any global setting.

       maxenvlen=nnn
              (Global|Local)  Specifies  the  maximum length of an environment
              variable definition (including  name,  equal  sign,  value,  and
              trailing  null character).  The default is given by the compile-
              time manifest constant MAXENVLEN, usually  1000  characters.   A
              negative value means no limit.

       cd=dir
              (Local|Global)  Just before executing the command, super changes
              the working directory to dir.

       setenv=var=xxx
              (Local|Global) The environment variable var is defined  to  have
              the value xxx, and is passed on when executing the Cmd.  You can
              add several environment variable definitions by using the option
              more than once.

       fd=n[,...]
              (Local)  Each  file  descriptor  n  in  the comma-separated list
              should  not  be  closed  before  executing   the   Cmd.    These
              descriptors are added to the usual set of descriptors kept open,
              namely 0, 1, 2.

       nice=n
              (Local|Global)  changes  the  ‘‘nice’’  value  of  the  executed
              command  by  an  amount  n  from  the  default level.  (Positive
              increments reduce the command’s  priority;  negative  increments
              increase it.)

       umask=nnn
              (Local|Global)  sets  the umask of any executed command to n.  A
              leading 0x or 0X in nnn means a hexadecimal value; otherwise,  a
              leading 0 means octal; otherwise it’s decimal.

       Group 6.  Other Options

       print=message
              (Local)  If  the  rest of the line is matched, then super prints
              the specified message just before executing the command.

       die=message
              (Local) If the rest of the line  is  matched,  then  super  does
              variable-substitution  on  the specified message message, prints
              it, and exits.  This lets you conveniently set up some  ‘‘stop’’
              conditions, and use the die option to prevent super from looking
              at any line past the stop conditions.  Otherwise, you’d have  to
              individually attach the stop conditions to every control line.

Include Files

       A super.tab file can include other files by means of an entry like
              :include filename [ owner=xxx ] [ group=yyy  ]
       or
              :optinclude file [ owner=xxx ] [ group=yyy  ]
       If  the  file isn’t an absolute path, it is taken to be relative to the
       directory containing the super.tab file.  Include files may  be  nested
       up  to  the  system  limit  on  the  number of simultaneously-open file
       descriptors.

       The owner=xxx option specifies that the file must be owned by user xxx;
       the group=yyy options specifies that the file must belong to group yyy.
       If group=yyy is specified, then the  file  can  be  group-writable;  by
       default,  the  file must be writable only by owner.  This can be useful
       for a collection of accounts that are operated together as  part  of  a
       single  project  — the several of accounts can share .supertab files by
       :include-ing files belonging to the trusted user xxx and/or group  yyy.
       Notes:

              1.   The  regular  root-owned  super.tab  file  can also use the
              owner= or group= constructs, but it’s not a good idea.  Don’t do
              it.

              2.   Beware  of  the  transitive  nature of this trust: the file
              owned by xxx can in turn include a file  owned  by  yet  another
              user.   You  might  wind up trusting a user you didn’t intend to
              trust!

       The difference between :include and  :optinclude  is  that  the  former
       generates  an error if the named file doesn’t exist, whereas the latter
       (optional-include) silently ignores files that don’t exist.

       WARNING: You should use :optinclude with great caution, and be sure not
       to depend on that file being present.  It is easy to imagine a scenario
       in which an administrator carelessly changes an entry so that the wrong
       permission is granted if an :optinclude’d file was missing.

FILES

       /etc/super.tab
              The location of the super.tab file on your system.

       /etc/super.init
              The location of the super.init file on your system.

       /var/run/superstamps/username
              Default  location  of  the  file  whose  mtime  is  used  as the
              timestamp for the last time the user entered his or her password
              for  password-requiring  commands.   Check your installation for
              the directory used on your system.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1.  The control line

                   doit /usr/local/bin/doit                \
                             me                            \
                             you@{h1,h32}                  \
                             ja.*:ok_j                     \
                             :goodguys

              allows /usr/local/bin/doit to be run setuid-root by
                   · user me on any host,
                   · user you on hosts h1 and h32;
                   · any users named ja.*  in group ok_j;
                   · and anybody in group goodguys.

       Example 2.  The pair of control lines

                   doit /usr/local/bin/doit                \
                             u+g=smith env=TZ,TAPE         \
                             password=y timeout=0          \
                             jo@PublicWorkstation

                   doit /usr/local/bin/doit                \
                             u+g=smith env=TZ,TAPE         \
                             jo

              allows user jo  to  run  /usr/local/bin/doit  with  uid = smith,
              gid = smith’s  login  gid, and keeping the environment variables
              TZ and TAPE in addition to the standard set.  If user jo  is  at
              PublicWorkstation,  the  first  entry will match, requiring jo’s
              password every time the command is used; otherwise,  super  will
              match  at the second entry, and no password is needed to run the
              command.

       Example 3.  Here is an entry restricting CD-ROM mounting  on  different
              hosts: tas is the only user who may mount CD’s on elgar; anybody
              in group xyz may mount CD’s on alpha or delta; and anybody on  a
              host  in  the  netgroup india may mount a CD on the india hosts.
              However, user jo may never run cdmount, regardless of his or her
              group  or  host  (assuming  that  there  is no overriding global
              pattern that permits jo to use the command).  Note  that  shell-
              style patterns are used, not regex-style patterns.

                   cdmount /usr/local/bin/cdmount          \
                             tas@elgar                     \
                             :xyz@{alpha,delta}            \
                             *@+india                      \
                             !jo

SEE ALSO

       super(1).

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