margolese  | 2007-09-23
You can become root, only by providing your own password
Calife, as it’s name goes, is a small, quite easy to use tool, that will enable a system administrator to become root on his own machine, without giving the root password but his own. Some features that attracted me to Calife, I can list the fact that it kept my environment variables and shell aliases intact, starts and ends with a session of logging, and I could use it to create users even if no home directory or shell was present. That’s very practical if you want to become uucp or even bin. A cute tool, that did it’s job.