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+For years I had been using an ultra simple program to allow root access without a password. It was called **root**(1) and in spite of a couple of bugs which I'd mainly fixed I generally just liked it. So easy to set up - just put the allowed uid's into ''/etc/rooters'' and off you go.
+Well blow me down, I lost the sources. Not on my backups. Not in cvs. What the heck had I done with it? No good googling - 'root' is just too general a name.
+So I re-wrote it from scratch and (apologies to the original author), its a darn sight better now (it even evaluates its arguments correctly if they contain spaces, which the old 'root' didn't). I also got it to add ''/sbin /usr/sbin'' and ''/usr/local/sbin'' to 'PATH' while I was at it, and allowed root to run it themselves. So now, it's just awesome!
+Why not **sudo**(1)? I hear you say. Well, this is much simpler to administer and generally less picky. Of course, it's most likely less secure, so if you're vulnerable, bone up on **sudo**(1).
+Here it is. To compile just do this as root:
+  cc -o root root.c
+  chown root root
+  chmod 4755 root
+  cp root /usr/local/bin # or anywhere you like
+Then put your allowed uids (use 'id -u') into ''/etc/rooters'' and then do this as root:
+  chown root /etc/rooters
+  chmod 600 /etc/rooters
+Here's the source: {{ root.c }}. No I won't post binaries, you really shouldn't trust me that much!