Please - really tiny sudo replacement

'Please' aims to be little sudo without bells and whistles. Only pam authentication and executing command.

Name please fits into unix naming conventions. Where we have daemon instead of background process. We are killing processes, not closing processes. Now we can please to run privileged process.

Examples

Reboot system by unprivileged user:

$ please reboot

To get a file listing of an unreadable directory:

$ please ls /usr/local/protected

Run a root shell:

$ please -

Installation on Debian / Ubuntu

apt-get install git build-essential libpam0g-dev
git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
cd please/
make && make install
cp pam.d/please.Debian /etc/pam.d/please

Installation on Fedora / CentOS / Alma / Rocky

dnf install git gcc pam-devel
git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
cd please/
make && make install
cp pam.d/please.Fedora /etc/pam.d/please

Installation on openSUSE

zypper install git gcc make pam-devel
git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
cd please/
make && make install
cp pam.d/please.openSUSE /etc/pam.d/please

Installation on ArchLinux

pacman -S git gcc make
git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
cd please/
make && make install
cp pam.d/please.Fedora /etc/pam.d/please

Installation on FreeBSD / DragonFly

From package

pkg install please

From source

make install clean -C /usr/ports/devel/git
git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
cd please/
make && make install
mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pam.d/
cp pam.d/please.BSD /usr/local/etc/pam.d/please

Installation on NetBSD

pkgin install git ca-certificates
git clone https://github.com/gblach/please.git
cd please/
make && make install
cp pam.d/please.BSD /etc/pam.d/please