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.TH SUPER.TAB 5 local
.\"
.\"	Copyright (c) 1993 by California Institute of Technology.
.\"	Written by William Deich.  Not derived from licensed software.
.\"
.\"    You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
.\"    License or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file.
.\"  
.\"
.SH NAME
super.tab \- database of restricted commands for super(1)
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I super.tab
file contains the restrictions on who can execute commands with
.BR super (1).
It may also contain options that modify the uid and/or gid under which
a command is run; the list of environment variables that are discarded before
executing a command, and so on.
The reader is expected to be familiar with the
.BR super (1)
man page.
.PP
If you are trying to avoid reading this lengthy man page, you need
to know a few simple rules.  First,
for a user to successfully execute a command by typing
.IR super\ commandName ,
the minimum entry in the
.I super.tab
is something like
.ti +.5i
.B commandName\ \  FullPathToCommand\ \ userName
.br
For example, the entry
.ti +.5i
.B cdmount\ \  /usr/local/bin/cdmount\ \ wally,dolly
.br
says that users
.I wally
and
.I dolly
may execute the
/usr/local/bin/cdmount
program by typing
.IR super\ cdmount .
.PP
Second, when you define options in the
.I super.tab
file, remember that
all options are orthogonal to each other,
and it doesn't matter in what
order they appear on a control line.
Third,
\fIglobal\fP options (defined on a
.B :global
or
.B :global_options
line) take effect immediately after the defining line,
are valid until the end of the input
or until there is a countermanding global option or pattern,
and are overridden by
\fIlocal\fP (per-command) options, which are defined on a regular
control line.
.PP
Although
.I super
has a great many options that you can set inside the
.I super.tab
file, none of them are required for security,
so you don't have to be intimately familiar with this entire document in
order to use
.I super
securely.
The most important options that you will probably want to use are
(a) a logging option like
.IR logfile= xxx
or
.IR syslog=y ;
and (b)
.IR patterns=shell ,
so that the default regular-expression interpretation of
wildcards is changed to the more convenient shell-style glob patterns.
.PP
Unless modified with options in the
.I super.tab
file, super executes commands
using effective uid root; unchanged real uid and gid;
no supplementary groups; no open file descriptors save 0, 1, and 2;
no environment variables except a few with safe values
(see 
.BR super (1));
and signal handling reset to the default.
.PP
When
.I super
uses a command from a user-supplied super file (\fI.supertab\fP in the
user's home directory) these rules are modified: the real and effective
uid and gid are set to the owner of the
.I .supertab
file, and the supplementary groups are set to the user's login groups.
.PP
If the special supplementary file named
.IR super.init
exists, it is implictly include at the start of
.I super.tab
and every
.I .supertab
file.  The file resides in the same directory as
.I super.tab
and must be owned by root, and should be world-readable.
This provides a uniform configuration file applied 
to every super-executed command.  Note that the configuration file
should
contain entries that are appropriate for use in both
the
.I super.tab
file and any per-user
.I supertab
file.
It is not a good idea to include commands in the
.I super.init
file.
The variable
.B IS_USERTAB
is defined to be ``\fIyes\fP'' if
.I super
is processing a per-user .supertab file, and
``\fIno\fP'' otherwise.
The following pair of entries could be used in a super.init file
to allow different initialization for regular use and per-user use:
.sp
.RS
.nf
\fB:if $IS_USERTAB == yes \ \ \ :include /etc/super.init.per-user\fP
\fB:if $IS_USERTAB != yes \ \ \ :include /etc/super.init.as-root\fP
.fi
.RE
.sp
(The use of variables and conditional expressions is explained below,
in the sections
.I Variables
and
.IR Conditionally-included\ Control\ Lines ,
respectively.)
.PP
The
.I super.tab
file is formatted as a series of control lines of the form
.sp
.ti +.5i
.B CmdPat\ \ FullPath\ \\\\
.ti 2.5i
.B Options\ PermittedUsers\ PermittedTimes
.\" .RE
.br
or
.br
.ti +.5i
.B CmdPat1::FullPath1\ CmdPat2::FullPath2\ ...\ \\\\
.ti 2.5i
.B Options\ PermittedUsers\ PermittedTimes
.br
or
.br
.ti +.5i
.B \fI:\fPBuiltinCmd  arguments
.sp
The
.IR Options ,
.IR PermittedUsers ,
and
.IR PermittedTimes
may be mixed together in any order.
At least one
.I PermittedUsers
field is required, but neither
.I Options
nor
.I PermittedTimes
are required.
For each control line,
.I Super
matches the following:
.RS
.HP
\(bu the user-entered command to a
.IR CmdPat ;
.HP
\(bu the {user,group,host} triplet to a
.I PermittedUsers
entry; and
.HP
\(bu the current time to a
.I PermittedTimes
entry (the default permits any time).
.RE
.PP
If these conditions are not satisfied,
.I super
``falls through'' and tries the next control line.
.PP
For example, the entry
.sp
.RS
.nf
.B renice\ /etc/renice\ jack@hill jill@bucket time~8-17
.fi
.RE
.sp
specifies that between hours 8:00 and 17:00,
user Jack can renice any process on host hill,
and user Jill can do so on host bucket,
by simply typing
.B "super renice <args>  ."
.PP
Control lines begin in column 1, and the
fields are whitespace-separated.
Note that you can either use a single
.I CmdPat
and
.IR FullPath ,
separated by whitespace, or you can use a series of them in one
control line by putting
.RB ` :: '
between each
.I CmdPat
and
.I FullPath
pair.

Whitespace may be included in a field by enclosing text in single- or
double-quotes.  The quoting is shell-like, in the sense that quotemarks
don't have to surround the entire field, and you can switch between
quotemark types in a single entry.  For instance, \fBX"a\ b"Y'd\ e'\fR
is equivalent to \fB"Xa\ bYd\ e"\fR.
Comments begin with a `#' and continue to the end of a line.
.PP
There can also be blank or comment lines without any control data.
.PP
A control line may be continued by preceding the newline
with a backslash, and indenting the continuation line with whitespace.
When the multiple-line entry is read, the text just before the
backslash-newline is not modified (any whitespace before the backslash
will be kept), and the backslash-newline-whitespace
sequence is either eliminated entirely or treated as whitespace.
The rule is simple: following a letter, digit, or underscore, it is
treated as whitespace.  Otherwise, it is eliminated.  This means that
.ne 5
.sp
.nf
.RS
\fBCmd\ \ File\ \ user1\\\fP
\fB\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ user2\\\fP
\fB\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ user3\fP
.RE
.fi
.sp
.ne 5
is equivalent to
.sp
.RS
.B Cmd\ \ File\ \ user1 user2 user3
.RE
.sp
.ne 5
On the other hand,
.sp
.nf
.RS
\fBCmd\ \ File\ \ {user1,\\\fP
\fB\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ user2,\\\fP
\fB\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ user3}\fP
.RE
.fi
.sp
.ne 5
is equivalent to
.sp
.RS
.B Cmd\ \ File\ \ {user1,user2,user3}
.RE
.sp
That is, the sensible interpretation is done in both cases.
.PP
The indentation requirement for continuation lines helps
.B super
catch typos.
Comments may be placed before each backslash-newline pair,
not just at the end of a continued control line.
.PP
.SH The CmdPat Field
.PP
In response to the user typing
.sp
.RS
.B super
.IR cmd " [" " args " ],
.RE
.sp
the
.I cmd
is searched for in the
.I super.tab
file.
The
.I cmd
is matched against each pattern
.IR CmdPat .
.PP
.B "Basic Use: Simple Command Patterns without Wildcards."
.PP
Typically, a
.I CmdPat
just uses plain characters without any special pattern-matching characters,
so a
.I cmd
must be the same as the
.I CmdPat
string.  For example:
.sp
.RS
.B
skill /usr/local/bin/skill   user1 user2 user3
.RE
.sp
Here, any user in the list {user1, user2, user3} may type
.B super skill
to execute /usr/local/bin/skill.
.PP
.B "Advanced Use: Command Patterns with Wildcards."
.PP
More generally, a
.IR CmdPat
can be either an
\fIed\fR-style pattern (``regex'' \(em the BSD\ 4.x syntax used in the
re_comp()/re_exec()
routines), POSIX regular expressions,
or a Bourne-shell-style
pattern.  You can set the pattern style using
the global option \fBpatterns\fR (see below).
The default is ``regex'' for historical reasons; however,
shell-style patterns are easier to use without errors,
and most sites should use shell-style patterns.
In all cases the patterns are extended to support csh-style
brace expansion.
For instance,
.B a{x,y,z}b
stands for the set of patterns
.BR "axb ayb azb" .
Don't put any whitespace inside the braces!
.PP
For convenience,
there is always an implied set of braces around an entire pattern.
This means that any comma-separated list
.B "a,b,c"
is interpreted as
.BR "{a,b,c}" ,
and is very helpful so that you don't have to worry about getting
braces just right when you build complex lists of
out of (say) variables containing other lists of users.
.PP
All pattern matching is ``anchored'': patterns are forced to match
the entire
.I cmd
string.
.PP
If the
.I CmdPat
is matched and the other conditions are met
(such as the user being in the PermittedUser list to execute this command),
.I FullPath
gives the name of the actual command that will be executed with
.IR execve() .
If
.I FullPath
contains an asterisk, the asterisk is first replaced by the user's
.IR cmd .
.PP
If you put special pattern-matching characters into the
.IR CmdPat ,
but don't put an asterisk into
.IR FullPath ,
you have simply given more ways a user can execute the same
.I FullPath.
This isn't useful, and in fact isn't a good idea at all.
The power of using patterns in the
.I CmdPat
comes when
.I FullPath
includes an asterisk.
For instance, a SysV-based host might have
.ne 5
an entry in the
.I super.tab
file that looks like:
.sp
.RS
\fB/usr/bin/{lp,lpstat,disable,enable,cancel} * \\\fP
.br
.B \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ :operators uid=0
.RE
.sp
This would allow anybody in the "operators" group to have root access
to the line printer commands
(the \fIuid=0\fP tells
.B super
to set the real uid to 0, not just the effective uid).
.ne 3
For instance, if the user typed:
.sp
.RS
.BI "super /usr/bin/disable " some_printer
.RE
.sp
then the
.I FullPath
(``\fB*\fR'') would be replaced by
.BR /usr/bin/disable ,
which would be the command to exec.
.sp
More conveniently, the
.I super.tab
.ne 5
file could have a line like:
.sp
.RS
\fB{lp,lpstat,disable,enable,cancel} /usr/bin/* \\\fP
.br
.B \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ :operators uid=0
.RE
.sp
In this case, the user can type
.sp
.RS
.BI "super disable " some_printer
.RE
.sp
The asterisk-replacement ability also lets a user execute any
of an entire directory of commands, using a
.I super.tab
entry like the following:
.sp
.RS
\fBop/* /usr/local/super/scripts/* :operators uid=0
.RE
.sp
In this case, the user can type
.sp
.RS
.BI "super op/" xyz
.RE
.sp
and
.I super
will execute
.I /usr/local/super/scripts/op/xyz.
.PP
The asterisk-replacement capability is useful but potentially dangerous,
because it may unintentionally open the door to programs you hadn't intended
to give away.
It is a sensible precaution to restrict asterisk-replacement
to entries where the valid-user list includes trusted users only.
.PP 
If you
.I completely
trust some users, but want logging of all actions executed as root,
.ne 5
you could use:
.sp
.RS
.B /* \ \ * \ \ \fIReallyReallyTrustedUsers\fP
.RE
or
.RS
.B /.* \ \ * \ \ \fIReallyReallyTrustedUsers\fP
.RE
.sp
(depending on whether \fBpatterns=shell\fP, \fBpatterns=regex\fP,
or \fBpatterns=posix\fP).

The trusted users can now execute any command.  Note that the pattern
begins with a slash, to ensure that the
.I cmd
must be an absolute path \(em this helps avoid accidental execs of the
wrong program.
.PP
If you were really going to give everything away as shown
above, you'd probably want to exclude any public-area
workstations, require the trusted users to periodically give
their passwords, and set the real uid=root (instead of just the effective
.ne 5
uid), so the entry might be modified to read something like:
.sp
.RS
.nf
\fB/* \ \ * \ \ \fITrustedUsers\fP \\
\fB\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ !{\fIPatternsOfPublicWorkstations\fP} \\\fP
\fB\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ password=y timeout=5 uid=0\fP
.fi
.RE
.sp
.PP
.SH The FullPath Field
.PP
The
.I FullPath
field
gives the name of the actual command that will be executed,
and if it contains an asterisk, the asterisk is first replaced by the user's
.IR cmd
string.
The
.I FullPath
can optionally contain a list of initial arguments that precede any
arguments passed by the user.
For example,
.sp
.RS
\fBxyz	"/usr/local/bin/blah \-o1 \-o2 \-xrm 'a b c'" ...\fR
.RE
.sp
specifies that when a valid user types
.BR "super xyz" ,
the command to execute is
.B /usr/local/bin/blah
and its arguments will be
.RS
argv[1]: \fB\-o1\fR
.br
argv[2]: \fB\-o2\fR
.br
argv[3]: \fB\-xrm\fR
.br
argv[4]: \fBa b c\fR
.RE
followed by any arguments that the user put on the super command line.
Note: asterisk replacement is only done on the filename part of the
.IR FullPath ,
not on the arguments.  You can safely include asterisks
in the argument list.  For security,
the user's
.I cmd
may not contain any whitespace or backslashes.
.PP
The
.I FullPath
string is parsed using rules similar to the Bourne shell rules
for backslashes in quoted strings, namely:
.RS
.br
(a) backslash-newline is discarded;
.br
(b) Otherwise, if outside a quoted substring,
\fB\\\fIx\fR \(-> plain \fIx\fR, which will not be treated as a delimiter,
quotemark, or comment character;
.br
(c) Otherwise, inside a quoted substring of \fIFullPath\fR:
.RS
\fB\\\\\fR \(-> \fB\\\fR;
.br
\fB\\\fR\fIq\fR \(-> \fIq\fR,
where
.I q
is the quote character that encloses the
.I FullPath
string;
.br
other backslashes are preserved: \fB\\x\fR \(-> \fB\\x\fR.
.RE
.RE
.PP
After writing a command with such backslash escapes,
you should certainly use
.RB `` super\ \-d\ cmd ''
to check
that your args are being parsed
as expected before you offer this command to your users.
.PP
The same
.I cmd
can be listed several times in the
.I super.tab
file, in which case the first entry that allows the user to
execute the command is chosen.
The EXAMPLES section shows how this can be useful.
.PP
.SH Permitted Users
.PP
Permitted users are those
who may execute the specified \fICmd\fP's.
Entries for any number of permitted users are given after
the
.I CmdPat
and
.IR FullPath
fields.
Local options \(em options that apply to this command only \(em
may also appear anywhere after the
.IR FullPath .
Options are distinguished from permitted users because options
all have the form
.IR key = value ,
whereas
permitted-user entries may not contain unescaped equal signs.
Each whitespace-separated word is a pattern in one of the formats
.in +.5i
.sp
\(bu	[\fBuser~\fP]\fIuser\fR[\fB:\fR][\fB@\fIhost\fR]
.sp
\(bu	[\fBuser~\fP]\fB:\fIgroup\fR[\fB@\fIhost\fR]
.sp
\(bu	[\fBuser~\fP]\fIuser\fR[\fB:\fIgroup\fR][\fB@\fIhost\fR]
.sp
.in -.5i
Note that the
.B user~
part is optional.
The user's login name must match the
.I user
pattern; the user must belong to a group whose name matches the
.I group
pattern; and the hostname must match the
.I host
pattern.
If the
.I user,
.I group,
or
.I host
part is not given, there are no corresponding restrictions.
.sp
If the user is root,
.I super
acts as if all permitted-user patterns are preceded by the pattern
.B user~root
\(em that is, root's rule is default-allow, instead of the
default-deny rule that applies to all ordinary users.
.sp
By default, the ``group'' field is first matched against named groups
to which the user belongs,
and then against the user's decimal gid \(em this allows the user to
be put in a group in the /etc/passwd file that isn't given a name
in the /etc/group file.
(If you want to change the rules for using decimal gid, see the
use of MATCH_DECIMAL_UID and MATCH_DECIMAL_GID in
.I super.c
for details.)
.sp
Since you can restrict users to particular hosts, a single
.I super.tab
file can be shared among many different machines.
If the
.I host
part is of the form
.BI + xyz ,
then
.I xyz
is interpreted as a netgroup name and any host in netgroup
.I xyz
is matched.  In that case, 
.I xyz
is taken literally, and
.I not
interpreted as a pattern to be matched.
Note: netgroup lookup is only
implemented if the function
.I innetgr()
is available.
.sp
If the
.I host
part doesn't match the hostname, it might be because
the pattern and actual hostnames contain two different (but both valid)
incomplete versions of the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN).
By default, if the
.I host
part fails to match the hostname, the FQDN is looked up and
all of the ways of naming the host are matched against
the pattern.
For example, if the FQDN is \fIspacely.sprockets.com\fP,
.B super
will first try
.IR spacely.sprockets.com ,
then
.IR spacely.sprockets ,
and finally
.IR spacely .
This can be turned off; see option
.BR gethostbyname .
(You might want to turn it off because using nameserver lookup
can reduce security a bit \(em your host may
query a nameserver on another host to obtain the FQDN, and (a) that
nameserver or an intermediate host along the way could
have been subverted, or (b) another host could impersonate the nameserver.
In either case your computer could receive incorrect hostnames.)
.PP
The patterns for valid users, groups, and hosts follow the same rules
for the
.IR CmdPat s,
described above: they can be entered with either
.IR ed -style
or
Bourne-shell-style patterns (depending on the setting of the
.B patterns
global option); csh-style brace expansion is allowed;
and all pattern matching is ``anchored'': patterns
are forced to match the entire username, groupname, or hostname.
.PP
To make it easy to exclude some users/groups/hosts, any of these
patterns can be negated by prefixing the pattern
with `\fB!\fP'.  If a negated pattern is matched,
the user may \fInot\fP execute the command, even
if there was a previous non-negated pattern that the user matched.
All patterns are read left-to-right, and the last matched
pattern ``wins''.  Thus if the user/group/host list is
.sp
.RS
.B j.*  !jo
.br
or
.br
.B user~j.*  !user~jo
.RE
.sp
then the first entry allows any username beginning with `\fBj\fP' to execute
the command, but the second entry disallows user `\fBjo\fP'.
If entered in the reverse order,
.sp
.RS
.B !jo  j.*
.RE
.sp
then the second entry, `\fBj.*\fP', allows all users beginning `\fBj\fP', and
therefore the first entry has no effect.
.PP
.SH Permitted Times
.PP
The
.B time
condition restricts the days and times during which this command
may be matched.  If the execution time isn't acceptable, then super
ignores the control line, and ``falls through'' to inspect the next entry,
just as it does if the user/group/host aren't acceptable.
A time condition looks like:
.ti +.5i
.BI time~ pattern
.sp
with
.IR pattern s
that look like:
.sp
.RS
.\" Older .BR macros limit the number of arguments, so we insert
.\" the font alternation explicitly in these examples (blecch!)
.ta 3i
\fIPattern	Example\fP
.br
\fBhh\fR[\fB:mm\fR]\fB\-hh\fR[\fB:mm\fR][\fB/dayname\fR]	13:30-17/monday
.br
\fR{\fB<\fR,\fB>\fR,\fB<=\fR,\fB>=\fR}\fBhh\fR[\fB:mm\fR][\fB/dayname\fR]	<17/tues
.br
\fBdayname\fP	Friday
.fi
.RE
.PP
The first form explicitly specifies an interval during which the command may
be used.  Times may not go past midnight; to specify the night between
Monday and Tuesday, you must do something like:
.RS
.B time~{17:30-24:00/mon,0-8/tues}
.RE
.sp
The second form for time patterns allows you to use logical operators.
The Monday-night example could equally have been rendered as:
.RS
.B time~{>17:30/mon,<8/tues}
.RE
(There is a tiny difference in the two examples above: in the first example,
the time range includes 17:30 and 8:00; in the second example, the time
range is 17:31\-07:59.  Use \fBtime~{>=17:30/mon,<=8/tues}\fP to make
the interpretation identical to the first example.)
.PP
If there are a series of time patterns, they are evaluated left-to-right,
and the rightmost matching pattern is used.
To permit execution between 17:30 Monday and 8:00 Tuesday, but exclude
0:00 to 1:00 Tuesday, use:
.RS
.B time~{>=17:30/mon,<=8/tues}\ \ !time~{0-1/tues}
.RE
.PP
By default, valid
.IR dayname s
are English, but if your system supports the
.IR setlocale( 3 )
function, the global option
.BI lang= zzz
will set the valid names to those of locale
.IR zzz .
Valid
.IR dayname s
are either
(a) the full names of the chosen language;
(b) an official abbreviated day name for that language;
(c) a 3-or-more character abbreviation of the full weekday; or
(d) \fB*\fP, meaning any day.
(You can check on super's valid daynames by executing
.IR super\ \-d ,
which will show the default names of the weekdays at or near the top of
its debugging output, and show the new weekday names that take
effect when the
.BI lang= zzz
option is encountered.)
.PP
Time patterns have a special defaulting rule when
the execution time is not in one of the intervals in the time list:
.RS
\(bu if
.I all
time patterns are negated,
.I super
permits execution at any time not in one of the listed intervals;
.br
\(bu otherwise, there is at least one non-negated pattern, and
.I super
defaults to deny execution at times outside the specified acceptable intervals.
.RE
The reason is that the natural interpretation of a series of negated
conditions, such as
.RS
.B !time~{0-8,17-24}  !time~{sat,sun}
.RE
is to infer that all other times are acceptable for execution.
On the other hand, if there are any ordinary, non-negated times, such as
.RS
.B time~8-17/{mon,tues,wed,thu,fri}
.RE
the natural interpretation is that any times not explicitly
mentioned are not acceptable.
.PP
Note that explicit braces are important in the above list.  If they
were missing, the implied braces around the entire pattern would render this
equivalent to
.RS
.B "time~8-17/mon time~tues time~wed time~thu time~fri"
.RE
That is, the permitted times are 8-17h on Monday,
and any time on Tuesday through Friday.
.PP
.SH Global Conditions
.ta 1i 2i 3i 4i 5i 6i
.PP
Global options and conditions affect the overall
.B super
processing.  To set them, you must use a line like
.sp
.RS
\fB:global\fP		\fIGlobal\ Options\ And\ Patterns\fP
.RE
or
.RS
\fB:global_options\fP	\fIGlobal\ Options\ And\ Patterns\fP
.RE
.sp
For backwards compatibility, you can alternatively use
.RS
.sp
\fB/	/	\fIGlobalOptionsAndPatterns\fR
.sp
.RE
but this use is discouraged.
.PP
These so-called ``global'' options and conditions actually take
effect immediately after the line
on which they appear, and are valid until the end of the input
or until there is a countermanding global option or pattern.
To have a global option or pattern affect the entire file, you must
place it as the \fIfirst non-comment line\fR
of the
.I super.tab
file.
.PP
If there are any PermittedUser or PermittedTime conditions
on the global settings line, they are applied to
each following command in the
.I super.tab
file.
The conditions look like
.sp
.RS
\fB:global	\fIcond cond ...  \fB<>\fP \fIcond cond ...\fR
.RE
.sp
PermittedUser and PermittedTime
conditions to the left of ``\fB<>\fP'' are processed
.I before
the local (per-command) conditions; conditions
to the right of ``\fB<>\fP'' are processed
.I after
the per-command conditions.
If ``\fB<>\fP'' is missing, all conditions are processed after
the local conditions.
Example 1:
.sp
.RS
.B :global	jan <> !@+badhosts
.RE
.sp
says that user
.I jan
can usually execute any command,
but under no circumstances will a user on any host in netgroup
.I badhosts
be allowed to execute any command.
(User
.I jan
will not be allowed to execute a command if the per-command
conditions disallow it, or if
.I jan
is on one of the
.I badhosts
computers).
.sp
Example 2:
.RS
.B :global	!root <>
.RE
.sp
changes
.IR root 's
default setting from default-allow to default-deny, just like ordinary
users.  Root will only be given execute permission for entries
that explicitly allow root on the per-entry line.
.sp
Global PermittedUser (PermittedTime) conditions take effect on
the line on which they are defined,
and are good until another set of global PermittedUser (PermittedTime)
conditions is entered on another
.B :global_option
line.  That is,
a new global condition line replaces any previous global conditions.
.PP
One sensible approach to using global conditions is to put conditions
that allow users to execute commands \fIbefore\fR the per-command conditions
are processed, and to put negating patterns (for users/groups/hosts that
are never to be allowed to execute anything)
\fIafter\fR the per-command conditions.
.PP
(Global options are discussed below, together with local options).
.SH Conditionally-included Control Lines
.PP
Control lines can be conditionally included by using the
.B :if
control line.  This can be helpful when using a single
.I super.tab
file for hosts with different architectures, or hosts in different
NIS domains, etc.
The syntax is:
.sp
.RS
\fB:if  \fIleft \ \ op \ \ \fIright\fP \ \ \ \ \fImoreText\fP 
.RE
.sp
The expression
.I left op right
is evaluated, and if true,
.I moreText
is evaluated as an ordinary control line.  The valid comparison operators
are:
.ta 0.5i 1i 1.5i 2i 2.5 3i 3.5 4i 4.5 5i 5.5 6i
.in +.5i
.sp
\(bu	==	string equality
.br
\(bu	!=	string inequality
.br
\(bu	~	glob match string
.I left
against pattern
.I right
.br
\(bu	!~	negated glob-match.
.br
.in -.5i
For example, you could include a file of commands only valid on
Sun4-type machines as follows:
.sp
.RS
.nf
\fB:if $UNAME_MACHINE ~ sun* \\
\fB\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ :include \ /Path/To/Sun4/File\fR
.fi
.RE
.RB (UNAME_MACHINE
is a variable automatically defined by
.IR super ;
see the following section on variables.)
.sp
If you wanted to exclude Sun4c-type machines from using the file,
you could modify this to be:
.sp
.RS
.nf
\fB:if $UNAME_MACHINE ~ sun* \\
\fB\ \ \ \ :if $UNAME_MACHINE != sun4c \\
\fB\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ :include \ /Path/To/Sun4/File\fR
.fi
.RE
.sp
There are no boolean operators provided, but
note that there is an implicit boolean
.B and
available by concatenating
.B :if
commands, as shown in the second example above.
.SH Variables
.PP
.B Super
offers variables to make it easier to handle entries that
are duplicated or are constructed out of other entries.
Variables are defined by typing
.sp
.RS
.B :define VariableName VariableDefinition
.RE
.sp
or they may be imported from the environment by using
.sp
.RS
.BI ":getenv " [ EnvVarName ...]
.RE
.sp
If you use the
.B :getenv
command, then the values of any imported environment variables may only
contain the following ``safe'' characters:
.B \-/:+._a-zA-Z0-9.
If ``bad'' characters are found in a value, the entire value is replaced
with an empty string.
Note that these imported variables do
.I not
enter the environment of any executed command; they simply become part of
the super.tab variable set.
.PP
The
.I VariableName
should be made up only of letters, digits, and/or underscore.
(You can actually use any characters you wish, but super doesn't promise to
work correctly if you use characters outside the standard set.)
.PP
The
.I VariableDefinition
begins at the first non-whitespace character after the
.I VariableName
and continues up to but not including the final newline.
Comments embedded on the variable definition line(s) are
deleted before the variable definition is stored.
A variable definition may be continued across multiple lines
by preceding each newline with a backslash,
and indenting the continuation line with whitespace.
Just as for regular control lines, the backslash-newline-whitespace
sequence is treated as whitespace if it follows a letter, digit, or underscore;
otherwise, it is eliminated.  For example,
.sp
.nf
\fB
.RS
:define  Users   user1,\\
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ user2,\\
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ user3
.RE
.fi
and
.RS
:define Users   user1,user2,user3
.RE
\fR
.sp
are equivalent definitions.
 
Unlike Makefiles, the variable definitions are not scanned first
and then the file re-scanned.  Instead, variables take effect at
the point they are defined, and remain in effect until they are
re-defined or end of file \(em thus variables definitions must precede
their first use in the file.

Variables may contain other variables (which must have already been
defined).  Variable substitution is done when a line is first read.
A line is never re-scanned after variable substitution.

Variables are used in a file by typing
.sp
.RS
.B $VariableName
.RE
.sp
or
.sp
.RS
.B $(VariableName)
.RE
.sp

The special variable
.B $$
is replaced by a single
.RB `` $ ''.
Any other name
.BI $ X
(where
.I X
is not a letter, digit, or underscore) is an error.

Because a line is never re-scanned after variable substitution,
the following sequence:
.sp
.nf
.RS
.B :define A $$
.B :define B A
.B :define C $B $$B
.B $C
.RE
.fi
.sp
defines
.B C
to be simply
.RB `` A\ $B ''.
.PP
Variables can be helpful in grouping users or hosts together.
For example, you might restrict access to a command so that it
can't be run from a public-access workstation:
.nf
.RS
.B :define Room103_WS hosta,hostb,hostc,hostd
.B :define Room105_WS hoste,hostf,hostg,hosth
.B :define Room106_WS +nonprivate
.B :define PublicWorkstations $Room103_WS,$Room105_WS,$Room106_WS
.B SomeCmd   FullPathHere   !@$(PublicWorkstations)
.RE
.fi
.PP
In the above example, we have taken advantage of the implied braces
that are always placed around any pattern, so that the comma-separated
list of workstations is brace-expanded into
.B !@hosta
.B !@hostb\ ...\ !@hoste
.BR !@hostf\ ...\ !@+nonprivate .
.ta 1i 2i 3i 4i 5i 6i
.PP
Some variables are automatically defined by
.I super.
.PP
After super determines whether it is processing a per-user .supertab
(see super(1)), it defines
.B IS_USERTAB
to be ``\fIyes\fP'' if
.I super
is processing a per-user .supertab file, and
``\fIno\fP'' otherwise.
The allows the super.init to act differently depending on how it
is being invoked.
.PP
When the top-level
.I super.tab
file is opened,
.B SUPER_OWNER
is set to the login name of the owner,
and
.B SUPER_HOME
is set to the home directory of the owner.
This can be useful in per-user 
.I .supertab
files, especially when they include files shared among several accounts.
For example, each person's
.I .supertab
file could be simply
.sp
.RS
.B :include /opt/proj/common.supertab owner=cristy
.RE
.sp
Then, the
.I /opt/proj/common.supertab
file can use entries like the following:
.sp
.RS
.B :global logfile=$SUPER_HOME/.superlog
.br
.B *    /project/tools/$SUPER_OWNER/* :toolgroup
.RE
.sp
Because the 
.B SUPER_HOME
and
.B SUPER_OWNER
variables apply to the top-level per-user files, they always refer to
per-user locations.
.PP
Super defines the built-in variable
.B CALLER
to be the the login name of the of account invoking super, and
.B CALLER_HOME is the home directory of
.BR $CALLER .
Sample use: 
.RS
.nf
\fB
sam  /usr/sbin/sam  group~operator  uid=0 \\
		env=DISPLAY \\
		setenv=XAUTHORITY=$CALLER_HOME/.Xauthority
\fP
.fi
.RE
Here, the
.I operator
group can execute
.I sam
as root, and the GUI will display at the caller's display (due to
the use of
.BR env=DISPLAY ).
Since the XAUTHORITY environment variable is set to the caller's
.I .Xauthority
file, this 
will give the caller access to the same display(s) to which s/he already 
has access.
.PP
The following variables are defined when super starts up.
They can be useful in conditionally-included lines
.RB ( :if
lines).  If your host doesn't supply these functions, or doesn't support
some of the values that
.I super
tries to fetch, the corresponding variable will be initialized to an
empty string.
(Use
.B super\ \-b
to print the names and values of all builtin variables.
This makes it simple to see what variable values to check in
.B :if
lines.)
.ta 2i 2.5i
.PP
From the
.I gethostname()
or
.I sysinfo()
function:
.in +.5i
\(bu
HOSTNAME	Hostname, possibly canonicalized.
.br
\(bu
HOST	Hostname, short (unqualified).
.br
.in -.5i
.PP
From the
.I getdomainname()
function:
.in +.5i
\(bu
NIS_DOMAIN	domain set for NIS purposes.
.br
.in -.5i
.PP
From the
.I sysinfo()
function:
.in +.5i
\(bu
SI_SYSNAME	Name of operating system.
.br
\(bu
SI_HOSTNAME	Name of node.
.br
\(bu
SI_RELEASE	Release of operating system.
.br
\(bu
SI_VERSION	Version field of utsname.
.br
\(bu
SI_MACHINE	Kind of machine.
.br
\(bu
SI_ARCHITECTURE	Instruction set arch.
.br
\(bu
SI_HW_SERIAL	Hardware serial number.
.br
\(bu
SI_HW_PROVIDER	Hardware manufacturer.
.br
\(bu
SI_SRPC_DOMAIN	Secure RPC domain.
.br
\(bu
.in -.5i
.PP
From the
.I uname()
function:
.in +.5i
\(bu
UNAME_SYSNAME	Operating system name.
.br
\(bu
UNAME_NODENAME	The nodename.
.br
\(bu
UNAME_RELEASE	Operating system release.
.br
\(bu
UNAME_VERSION	Operating system version.
.br
\(bu
UNAME_MACHINE	Machine hardware name (class).
.br
.RE
.ta 0.5i 1.0i 1.5i 2.0i 2.5i 3.0i 3.5i 4.0i 4.5i 5.0i 5.5i 6.0i 6.5i 7.0i
.SH Options
.PP
The configuration file can specify a wide variety of options,
such as requiring the user's password before executing some commands,
or restricting the command-line arguments to match certain patterns.
.PP
.I Options
are handled very differently from
.I conditions
(conditions include user, group, host, and time).
If a control line's conditions aren't met, super falls through and
tries the next control line in the file.  After finding an acceptable
control line, super will execute the command if the options
are satisfied; otherwise, it stops and doesn't search the
.I super.tab
file any further.
.PP
Options can be divided into (a) \fIlocal\fP options,
which are defined on a regular control line, and apply only to that
control line; and (b) \fIglobal\fP options,
which are defined on a
.B :global
or
.B :global_options
line, take effect immediately after the line,
and are valid until the end of the input
or until there is a countermanding global option or pattern.
.PP
All options are orthogonal to each other.  It doesn't matter in what
order they appear on a control line.
.PP
Some options can be given as either local or global options.
If both are used, the local setting overrides the global one.
.PP
Two special names can be used with any of the options
that take user or group ids as arguments:
.BI owner= xxx,
.BI uid= xxx,
.BI euid= xxx,
.BI gid= xxx,
.BI egid= xxx,
.BI u+g= xxx,
.BI groups= xxx,
.BI addgroups= xxx.
These names are
.BR <owner> ,
meaning the owner of the file to be executed
(or the owner's group, whichever is appropriate in the context);
and
.BR <caller> ,
meaning the owner or group of the user calling super.
The angle brackets are literally part of the name.
These have the same values as the built-in variables
.B CALLER
and
.B OWNER
(see the
.I Variables
section, above).
For example, the options
.RS
gid=Foo uid=<caller>
.RE
would change the group to
.IR Foo ,
but leave the uid unchanged.
.PP
The recognized options are:
.PP
.I "Group 1.  Options Affecting How Superfiles Are Read and Processed."
.HP
\fBpatterns=\fIxxx\fR
.br
.B (Global)
Specifies the pattern-matching type for conditions and options.
The string
.I xxx
must be one of:
.RS
.HP
.B posix
\(em patterns are POSIX
regular expressions.
You can use
.RB `` posix/extended ''
for extended regular expressions;
.RB `` posix/icase ''
for case-insensitive regular expressions; or
.RB `` posix/extended/icase ''
for both.
See your regular-expression man pages for
details.
.HP
.B regex
\(em patterns are ed-style
regular expressions, using the rules embodied in the BSD\ 4.x routines
.IR re_comp()/re_exec() ,
with the addition of csh-style brace expansion.
This is the default for historical reasons, but most people prefer
to use shell-style patterns here, and it is recommended that you put
\fBpatterns=shell\fP (see below) in your global options list.
.HP
.B shell
\(em patterns are approximately Bourne-shell style, with the addition
of csh-style brace expansion and the special
.BI [[ chars ]]
pattern.  The patterns are formed from:
.RS
.HP
\\x	force x to be a plain character;
.HP
?	matches any single character;
.HP
*	matches any sequence of 0 or more chars;
.HP
[\fIchars\fP]	matches any single character in the set;
.HP
[^\fIchars\fP]	matches any single char NOT in the set;
.HP
[[\fIchars\fP]]	When the pattern begins with
.BR [[ ,
and ends with
.BR ]] ,
then each and every character in the string must match the ordinary
square-bracket pattern
.BI [ chars ]
(or \fB[\fP^\fIchars\fP\fB]\fP).
.HP
^\fIpat\fP	inverts the sense of the match \(em
the string must NOT match the pattern.
.RE
.RE
.HP
\fBlang=\fIzzz\fR
.br
.B (Global)
This option sets the language used for weekdays (in time conditions).
Here,
.I zzz
may be any locale available on your host.  For example,
.B lang=de
would typically cause
.I super
to use German names.  The default is the
.B C
locale, hence English names.
.HP
\fBrelative_path=\fIy\fR|\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Global)
If \fIy\fR, FullPathNames can be relative instead of absolute.
By default this is disallowed, because it is almost always a very
foolish (unsafe) thing to do.
.HP
\fBgroup_slash=\fIy\fR|\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Global)
If \fIy\fR, group names can contain a slash.  By default this is disallowed,
so that
.B super
can catch certain typos in the
.I super.tab
file.
(Namely,
.B super
can catch errors in which an entry is of the form
.IB Cmd : File
instead of the required
.IB Cmd :: File.
The trouble is that
.IB Cmd : File
looks syntactically like
.IB user : group,
and can therefore be mistaken for a valid part of a control line.
But the filename will contain a slash \(em unless you have unwisely
enabled the
.B relative_path
option \(em so disallowing
slashes allows
.B super
to flag the line as syntactically invalid.)
.HP
\fBgethostbyname=\fIy\fR|\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Global)
Enables or disables the use of
.I gethostbyname()
to find the fully-qualified domain name
(see the discussion in the
.BR "Permitted Users"
section, which describes the security issues associated with enabling
this option.)
Default: enabled (if your host supports gethostbyname()).
.PP
.I "Group 2.  Logging Options."
.HP
\fBlogfile=\fIfname\fR
.br
.B (Global)
Enables logging to a local file.
Each invocation of
.B super
(aside from ones for help) generates an entry in
file
.IR fname .
.HP
\fBloguid=\fIxxx\fR
.br
.B (Global)
If logging is enabled with logfile=\fIfname\fR, the
logfile will be opened for writing using uid=\fIxxx\fR
(can be either a username or numeric uid).
This option allows you to
have the file created/opened under another uid that
does have cross-host access, such as the uid of a
system manager.
(See
.I timestampuid=xxx
for additional comments).
Default: loguid=0.
.HP
\fBmail="\fImail-command\fB"\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
Notices of super failures are piped to the shell command
.IR mail-command .
This is independent of the setting of the
.B logfile
and
.B syslog
options.
For instance,
\fImail="mail \-s Super joeblow"\fR
will cause error messages to be mailed to user
.I joeblow
(on some systems you may need to substitute
.I mailx
for
.IR mail ).
Note: the
.I mail-command
is executed by passing it as an argument to
.IR popen(3) .
This is safe to execute because of the clean environment assured
by
.B super.
.HP
\fBmailany="\fImail-command\fB"\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
This is identical to the
.I mail
option, except that
.I mailany
sends notification of successful invocations as well as errors.
.HP
\fBrlog_host=\fIhostname\fR
.br
.B (Global)
Tells super which host's syslog daemon is to receive log messages
when option
.B syslog=y
is enabled.
The option has no effect if used after the first message is logged:
once the logger has been opened, it is not re-opened if the \fBrlog_host\fP
is changed.
Default: the local host.
Note: One could instead configure the
.I syslog.conf
file to forward the messages to a central machine.
.HP
\fBsyslog=\fIy\fR|\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Global)
Logging information is passed to the logs maintained by the
.I syslogd
daemon.
This is independent of the setting of the
.B logfile
option (above).
Error messages are by default logged at priority LOG_ERR
and successful attempts to run programs are logged at priority LOG_INFO.
(See options
.I syslog_error
and
.I syslog_success
to change these levels.)
.HP
\fBsyslog_error=\fIxxx\fR
.br
.B (Global)
If syslog is enabled (see the
.I syslog
option),
then by default
super logs error messages using
.I syslog(3)
code
.B LOG_ERR.
This option changes the code to
.IR xxx ,
where
.I xxx
is any of the usual
.I syslog(3)
priority and/or facility codes, such as
.B LOG_WARNING
or
.BR LOG_LOCAL7|LOG_ERR .
The
.BI LOG_ xxx
words can be separated by whitespace, dot, and/or ``|'', but of course you
must use quotes if whitespace is included.  The leading "LOG_" is optional,
and the value is case-insensitive.
For example, 
.B LOG_LOCAL7|LOG_ERR
can alternatively be written as
.BR local7.err .
Super doesn't know what are sensible codes \(em it's up to the
.I super.tab
writer to choose meaningful values.  For instance, if you put
.ti +.5i
.B syslog_error="LOG_INFO\ |\ LOG_ERR"\ \fI(bad!)\fP
.br
then you will get both those values or'd together and passed to
.I syslog().
.HP
\fBsyslog_success=\fIxxx\fR
.br
.B (Global)
This option is just like
.BR syslog_error ,
except that it applies to successful-execution messages instead of
error messages.  Default:
.B LOG_INFO .
.PP
.I "Group 3.  Extra Help Information for Users."
.HP
.BI info= xxx
.br
.B (Local)
The string
.I xxx
is printed when giving help to users.  It should be set to a helpful
one-line description of the command.
.PP
.I "Group 4.  Password and Other Restrictions Before Approval."
.HP
\fBmaxlen=\fR[\fImmm\fB,\fR]\fInnn\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
Each argument must be no more than
.I mmm
characters long (including the terminating null),
and the sum length of all arguments must not exceed
.I nnn
characters.  A negative value means that no limit is applied.
The defaults for
.I mmm
and
.I nnn
are set by the compile-time manifest constants
MAXLEN1ARG and MAXLENARGS,
which are usually 1000 and 10,000 characters, respectively.
.HP
\fBnargs=\fR[\fImmm\fB\-\fR]\fInnn\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
The user is required to enter
.I mmm - nnn
arguments to the command.  If just
.I nnn
is given, the user must enter exactly
.I nnn
arguments.  These arguments are in addition to any arguments entered
in the command part of the
.I super.tab
file.  The default is to allow
the user to enter any number of arguments.
.HP
\fBarg\fR[\fImmm\fB\-\fR]\fInnn\fB=\fIsss\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
This means that the
.IR nnn 'th
or
.IR mmm\-nnn 'th
arguments must match pattern
.IR sss .
(Arguments are numbered from\ 1.)
The pattern must be enclosed in quotes if it contains whitespace.
Note that this option does not
.I require
that there be
.IR mmm \- nnn
arguments; it only says what those arguments must look like, if entered.
You can use this option several times on one line, with different
.IR mmm \- nnn
values each time, to apply different patterns to different arguments.
If more than one pattern applies to a given argument, all of
those patterns must be matched.
An empty pattern ("") is special: it has the effect of
.I unsetting
(removing) any previous patterns for the matching
[\fImmm\fR\-]\fInnn\fR.
This can be useful if you want to change
.B :global
settings, instead of adding to them.
If there are local \fBarg\fR[\fImmm\fB\-\fR]\fInnn\fR option(s),
they completely replace all global
\fBarg\fR[\fImmm\fB\-\fR]\fInnn\fR values,
even if the local
.IR mmm \- nnn
values do not overlap with the global values.
.HP
\fBowner=\fIxxx\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
This option specifies that the
.I FullPath
(after asterisk-substitution)
must be owned by user (or uid) \fIxxx\fR, or else it won't be
executed.
.HP
\fBauth=\fIy\fR|\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
If \fIy\fR, user authentication
is required before the command is executed.
The default authentication method is Unix password authentication.
See also the options
.IR authprompt ,
.IR authtype ,
.IR authuser ,
.IR timeout ,
and
.IR renewtime ,
and be sure to read the warning under
.I timestampbyhost.
.HP
\fBauthprompt=\fImessage\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
Specifies the prompt used when authenticating the user
(usually the default prompt is fine).
Variable substitution is done on the prompt before printing.
.HP
\fBauthtype=\fItype\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
Specifies the type of authentication used when
.IR auth=y .
The
.I type
can be
.B password
or
.B pam
(if PAM is supported on your system).
The default is
.BR password .
If PAM authentication is used,
.I super
uses the service name
.RB `` super ''
when looking for authentication in your system PAM configuration files.
.HP
\fBauthuser=\fIusername\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
Specifies the user whose authentication is required when
.IR auth=y .
The default is the password (or other authentication) for
the user who invoked super.
.HP
\fBpassword=\fIy\fR|\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
This is a deprecated option; it has been replaced by the
.I auth
and
.I authtype
options.
.B Password=y
is equivalent to
.B auth=y authtype=password
; and
.B Password=n
is equivalent to
.B auth=n.
.HP
\fBrenewtime=\fIy\fR|\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Global)
If \fIy\fR, the user's timestamp file is updated to the current time
whenever an authentication-requiring command is executed.
The result is that a user who frequently executes authentication-requiring
commands won't need to re-authenticate until more than
.I timeout
minutes elapse since the last such command.
Otherwise, the user will need to re-authenticate
.I timeout
minutes after last entering the password.
The default is \fIn\fR.
.HP
\fBtimeout=\fIm\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
User authentication is good for \fIm\fR minutes;
that is, the command may be executed
without re-authenticating
for \fIm\fR minutes after the previous authentication
(for any command).  After \fIm\fR minutes, user authentication will be
required again before the command can be executed.  If \fItimeout\fR is
zero or negative, authentication is required every time the command is used.
The timestamp for user \fIusr\fR is recorded in the file
\fBTIMESTAMP_DIR\fR directory (see \fBtimestampbyhost\fR and
the FILES section, below).
.HP
\fBtimestampbyhost=\fIy\fR|\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Global)
If \fIy\fR (default), the timestamp files are given names that are
unique on each host.  For instance, \fIjouser@somehost\fR will be
given a timestamp file named \fITIMESTAMP_DIR/somehost/jouser\fR,
where \fITIMESTAMP_DIR\fR is defined in the FILES section.
If \fItimestmapbyhost=n\fR, the timestamp files are given names
that are unique to each user, but not unique per host.  For instance,
\fIjouser\fR on any host will be given a timestamp file named
\fITIMESTAMP_DIR/jouser\fR.
.br
.I WARNING:
The hostname used is that from
.I gethostname().
Note that this is not necessarily unique across
internet domains, since it is frequently not a
fully-qualified domain name.  Therefore you should
not share timestamp directories with hosts outside
the local domain.  (Generally such connections don't
exist, but one
.I could
crossmount the timestamp directory disk...)
.HP
\fBtimestampuid=\fIxxx\fR
.br
If a password is required, the time at which it was entered is
recorded as the mtime of a timestamp file.  The timestamp file
is normally created with owner=root; however, this option
causes it to be created/modified using uid=\fIxxx\fR
(\fIxxx\fR can be either a username or numeric uid).
This option is useful when a network of hosts are
sharing a cross-mounted timestamp directory.  Note that networks
are typically configured to not allow root on one
host to have root access to files on another host,
which will forbid root on other hosts from creating
the timestamp file unless it's world-writable.
This option allows you to
have the file created/opened under another uid that
does have cross-host access, such as the uid of a
system manager.
Default: timestampuid=0.
.HP
\fBcheckvar=\fIname\fR[,...]
.br
.B (Local)
Each
.I name
in the comma-separated list is a
.I super.tab
variable which the user must enter at a prompt from
.I super.
For example, you might have a
.B super shutdown
command which halts the computer.  If you execute this on the wrong host
there may be some very annoyed users!  So, you can include
.BR checkvar=HOST ,
and the user will have to type the correct hostname in response
to a prompt from
.I super.
.PP
.I "Group 5.  Modifications to Environment Before Executing Command."
.HP
.BI uid= xxx
.br
.B (Local)
Sets the real uid to
.I xxx
just before executing the command.
If option
.B euid
isn't used, also sets the effective uid to \fIxxx\fP.
The uid
.I xxx
is first tried as a login name and then as a number.
If the options
.BI uid =xxx
and
.BI u+g =yyy
(see below) are used together, then the
.B u+g
option only sets the group\ id, and not the user\ id.
.HP
.BI euid= xxx
.br
.B (Local)
Sets the effective uid to
.I xxx
just before executing the command.
The uid
.I xxx
is first tried as a login name and then as a number.
.HP
.BI gid= yyy
.br
.B (Local)
Sets the real gid to
.I yyy
just before executing the command.
If option
.B egid
isn't used, also sets the effective gid to \fIyyy\fP.
The gid
.I yyy
is first tried as a group name and then as a number.
.HP
.BI egid= yyy
.br
.B (Local)
Sets the effective gid to
.I yyy
just before executing the command.
The gid
.I yyy
is first tried as a group name and then as a number.
.HP
.BI u+g= zzz
.br
.B (Local)
Sets the real uid to
.IR zzz ,
the real gid to
.IR zzz 's
login gid,
and the supplementary groups list to
.IR zzz 's
supplementary groups just before executing the command.
If the \fBeuid\fP and/or \fBegid\fP option aren't given, the effective
uid and/or gid are also set.
The options
.I u+g
and
.BI gid=yyy
conflict with each other, and may not be used together.
.HP
\fBgroups=\fIname\fR[,...]
.br
.B (Local|Global)
By default, the user's supplementary groups list is deleted before
executing a command (unless the option
.B u+g
is used).
This option instead sets the group list to \fIname\fR[,...]
.HP
\fBaddgroups=\fIname\fR[,...]
.br
.B (Local|Global)
This option adds the listed groups to the supplementary groups list.
Since the default is to provide an empty supplementary groups list,
this option usually has the same effect as the plain
.B groups
option.
However, if the options
.BI u+g= foo
.BI addgroups= a,b,c
are used, then the supplementary groups list is composed of user
.IR foo 's
supplementary groups plus \fIa, b\fR, and \fIc\fR.
.HP
\fBargv0=\fIname\fR
.br
.B (Local)
Execute the command will execute with its first argument
(that is, the argument conventionally denoted as
.IR argv[0] ),
set to
.IR name .
As a convenient shorthand, the value
.BR <path>
(the angle brackets are literally part of the name)
means to use the
.I FullPath
specified in the
.I super.tab
file.
By default,
.I argv[0]
is set to
.IR Cmd ,
the name of the
.I super
command invoked by the user, regardless of the actual path being invoked.
However, some programs will not run properly unless
.I argv[0]
has a particular value.
For example, suppose you want to permit users to safely mount zip disks,
and you use something like:
.ti +.5i
.B zipmount
"/etc/mount \-o nosuid /dev/xz10  /zip"
.br
This command will fail if
.I /etc/mount
requires that it be invoked with 
.I argv[0]
set to
.RI [ .../ ] mount,
because
.I super
will use the name
.I zipmount.
However, you can put
.B argv0=<path>
into your super.tab file, and then the mount command will work properly.
.HP
\fBenv=\fIname\fR[,...]
.br
.B (Global|Local)
Each
.I name
in the comma-separated list is an environment variable which should
.I not
be deleted before executing the
.IR Cmd ;
these variables are in addition to the normal variables created or passed
by
.B super
(TERM, IFS, PATH, USER, LOGNAME, HOME, ORIG_USER, ORIG_LOGNAME,
ORIG_HOME, LINES, COLUMNS, SUPERCMD).
Be careful here; environment variables can sometimes be abused to create
security holes.
If you use the option more than once, the later instance overrides the
earlier one, instead of adding to it.  Similarly, using it as a local
option completely overrides any global setting.
.HP
\fBmaxenvlen=nnn
.br
.B (Global|Local)
Specifies the maximum length of an environment variable definition
(including name, equal sign, value, and trailing null character).
The default is given
by the compile-time manifest constant MAXENVLEN, usually 1000 characters.
A negative value means no limit.
.HP
\fBcd=\fIdir\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
Just before executing the command,
.I super
changes the working directory to
.IR dir .
.HP
\fBsetenv=\fIvar\fB=\fIxxx\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
The environment variable
.I var
is defined to have the value
.IR xxx ,
and is passed on when executing the
.IR Cmd .
You can add several environment variable definitions
by using the option more than once.
.HP
\fBfd=\fIn\fR[,...]
.br
.B (Local)
Each file descriptor
.I n
in the comma-separated list should
.I not
be closed before executing the
.I Cmd.
These descriptors are added to the usual set of descriptors kept open,
namely 0, 1, 2.
.HP
\fBnice=\fIn\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
changes the ``nice'' value of the executed command by an amount
.I n
from the default level.  (Positive increments reduce the command's
priority; negative increments increase it.)
.HP
\fBumask=\fInnn\fR
.br
.B (Local|Global)
sets the umask of any executed command to
.IR n .
A leading
.B 0x 
or
.B 0X
in \fInnn\fP means a hexadecimal value; otherwise,
a leading
.B 0
means octal; otherwise it's decimal.
.PP
.I "Group 6.  Other Options"
.HP
.BI print= message
.br
.B (Local)
If the rest of the line is matched, then
.B super
prints the specified
.I message
just before executing the command.
.HP
.BI die= message
.br
.B (Local)
If the rest of the line is matched, then
.B super
does variable-substitution on the specified message
.IR message ,
prints it, and exits.
This lets you conveniently set up some ``stop'' conditions, and use the
die option to prevent super from looking at any line past the stop
conditions.  Otherwise, you'd have to individually attach the stop
conditions to every control line.
.SH Include Files
.PP
A
.I super.tab
file can include other files by means of an entry like
.RS
.BI :include \ filename\ [ \ owner= xxx\ ]\ [ \ group= yyy\ \ ]
.RE
or
.RS
.BI :optinclude \ file\ [ \ owner= xxx\ ]\ [ \ group= yyy\ \ ]
.RE
If the
.I file
isn't an absolute path, it is taken to be relative to the
directory containing the
.I super.tab
file.  Include files may be nested up to the system limit
on the number of
simultaneously-open file descriptors.
.PP
The
.BI owner= xxx
option specifies that the
.I file
must be owned by user
.I xxx;
the
.BI group= yyy
options specifies that the
.I file
must belong to group
.I yyy.
If
.BI group= yyy
is specified, then the file can be group-writable; by default,
the file must be writable only by owner.
This can be useful for a collection of accounts
that are operated together as part of a single project \(em the several of
accounts can share
.I .supertab
files by
.BI :include -ing
files belonging to the trusted user
.I xxx
and/or group
.I yyy.
Notes:
.RS
.PP
1.  The regular root-owned
.I super.tab
file can also use the
.I owner=
or
.I group=
constructs, but it's not a good idea.  Don't do it.
.PP
2.  Beware of the transitive nature of this trust: the file owned by
.I xxx
can in turn include a file owned by yet another user.  You might wind up
trusting a user you didn't intend to trust!
.RE
.PP
The difference between
.B :include
and
.B :optinclude
is that the former generates an error if the named file doesn't exist,
whereas the latter (optional-include) silently ignores files that don't
exist.
.PP
.I WARNING:
You should use
.B :optinclude
with great caution, and be sure not to depend on that file
being present.  It is easy to imagine a scenario in which
an administrator carelessly changes an entry so that the wrong
permission is granted if an :optinclude'd file was missing.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I @SUPERDIR@/super.tab
The location of the
.I super.tab
file on your system.
.TP
.I @SUPERDIR@/super.init
The location of the
.I super.init
file on your system.
.TP
.IR @TIMESTAMP_DIR@/ username
Default location of the file whose \fImtime\fR is used as the timestamp for the
last time the user entered his or her password for password-requiring
commands.  Check your installation for the directory used on your system.
.SH EXAMPLES
.ta 1i 4i
.HP
Example 1.
The control line
.sp
.in +.5i
.nf
doit /usr/local/bin/doit		\\
	me	\\
	you@{h1,h32}	\\
	ja.*:ok_j	\\
	:goodguys
.fi
.in -.5i
.sp
allows /usr/local/bin/doit to be run setuid-root by
.in +.5i
\(bu user
.B me
on any host,
.br
\(bu user
.B you
on hosts
.B h1
and
.BR h32 ;
.br
\(bu any users named
.B ja.*
in group
.BR ok_j ;
.br
\(bu and anybody in group
.BR goodguys .
.br
.in -.5i
.HP
Example 2.
The pair of control lines
.sp
.in +.5i
.nf
doit /usr/local/bin/doit		\\
	u+g=smith env=TZ,TAPE	\\
	password=y timeout=0	\\
	jo@PublicWorkstation

doit /usr/local/bin/doit		\\
	u+g=smith env=TZ,TAPE	\\
	jo
.fi
.in -.5i
.sp
allows user
.B jo
to run /usr/local/bin/doit with
uid\ =\ \fBsmith\fP,
gid\ =\ \fBsmith\fP's login gid, and keeping the environment variables
TZ and TAPE in addition to the standard set.
If user 
.B jo
is at
.BR PublicWorkstation ,
the first entry will match, requiring
jo's password every time the command is used; otherwise,
.I super
will match at the second entry, and no password is needed to run the command.
.HP
Example 3.
Here is an entry restricting CD-ROM mounting on different hosts:
.B tas
is the only user who may mount
CD's on
.BR elgar ;
anybody in group
.B xyz
may mount CD's on
.B alpha
or
.BR delta ;
and anybody on a host in the netgroup
.B india
may mount a CD on the
.B india
hosts.  However, user
.B jo
may never run \fIcdmount\fP, regardless of his or her group or host
(assuming that there is no overriding global pattern that permits
.B jo
to use the command).  Note that shell-style patterns are used,
not regex-style patterns.
.sp
.in +.5i
.nf
cdmount /usr/local/bin/cdmount		\\
	tas@elgar		\\
	:xyz@{alpha,delta}	\\
	*@+india		\\
	!jo

.fi
.in -.5i
.sp
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR super (1).