>> This lets you execute commands like:
>>
>>      auth/as
... 
POSIX forbids this behavior, FWIW, so you'll probably have a hard time
finding a shell -- at least one with POSIX aspirations -- that implements it.

So you write a function or alias that prepends the full path to "as" and exec's the command.  So you have to type "auth as ..." but BFD.