On 11/11/09 16:51, Stephen Davies wrote: > Microsoft has patented 'sudo'
No, they haven't. From my reading (and indeed one of the comments on the thread) they've patented a GUI for 'su', rather than sudo, with a scary (from a security perspective) idea that they may just give you a list of users that *can* do what you're trying to do. "I'm sorry Dave, you can't do that, but Bob can, so go and look under his mousemat for his password" It's still a shockingly bad patent though. As usual. The only real new bit is probably the list of users part. There's probably prior art for that as well. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
