sux, an enhancer for su

[Kyle Jones]

Tom Christiansen writes:
 > As it is, the program is undesirable from a security standpoint.  It would
 > be less so if the user were at least prompted for his own password.

Which kills the basic usefulness of the command!  The whole point
was to avoid typing a password.  The idea behind this easy su
seems to be to let the right users _conveniently_ become root, so
they can do so often for short periods--- instead of creating one
root shell and using it all day, eventually forgetting that they
are root and destroying something.