On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Martin Bochnig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, David Abrahams <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Coming from other unices I find this strange pfexec thing being used in
>> some places where sudo or su might have been used otherwise, and I'm
>> trying to figure out its proper application.  Can anyone offer a helpful
>> pointer?
>
>
> In addition to being much more fine-grain-controllable, RBAC offers
> you the convenience, that you do not need to re-type the password
> every time you run pfexec.

Note that sudo and su still works as well.
If you prefer to login directly as root (which is disabled by
default), you can use pfexec to set root password and edit
/etc/user_attr and remove "type=role;" from root.

-- 
Fajar
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