Adam Graffunder
Web Consultant, Customer Services
UW Technology Services
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2830
(Tel) 206.897.1851

ssush

This is a tiny little sh script that I use in my fluxbox menu file to ask for a netid to give to 'ssu -' when I want to be someone else.

If you run this from the command line:

1. passes all of its command line arguments to ssh
2. asks you for a netid to 'ssu -' to
3. executes the ssh command and that asks you for a password unless you have a key in place
4. if you went to deskmail, it exports SU_SHELL=/bin/bash so we have a usable shell once we are the user
5. executes 'ssu -' to whatever netid you gave it and this asks you for a CRN.

Now you're someone else on another host.

ssush