Calife is a small program that enable a system administrator to become root (or another user) on his/her machines by giving his/her own password. It is close to sudo, but smaller. You can also selectively restrict calife usage for some users to become only a given set of logins and not root.
| Tags | Systems Administration |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Unix |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. Support for Mac OS X 10.6 was added. The config.guess and config.sub files were updated to the latest github versions.


Release Notes: This release adds PAM support.


Release Notes: Solaris 10 support was improved. The documentation was fixed.


Release Notes: This version supports Solaris 10 and includes a PAM file for it. A working PAM file for FreeBSD 5 and above is included. The Mercurial hash ID is embedded in the binary.


Release Notes: A fix when deinstalling calife through the FreeBSD port system has been fixed. Some fixes have been merged from the 3.0/PAM branch.