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PLEASE(1)							       PLEASE(1)

NAME
     please - execute a command as root

SYNOPSIS
     please <command>
     please -

DESCRIPTION
     Please aims to be little sudo without bells and whistles.	Only pam authen-
     tication and executing command.

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

EXIT VALUE
     Upon  successful  execution  of a program, the exit status will be the exit
     status of the program that was executed.

     Otherwise, please exits with non-zero value.

FILES
     /etc/pam.d/please or /usr/local/etc/pam.d/please	 PAM  configuration  for
     please.

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 -

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