[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes: > Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I tried reading the man pages, but > su (which I think is what I would need to use) is not exactly what I'd > call well documented.
su will only work if you want to give the users the root password (not a good idea). What you want is either the sudo package or the super package. I use sudo. It lets you specify which users are allowed to run which commands as root. Then, to run the command, the user types sudo some_command maybe with args and sudo will ask them for *their* password, and if it's OK, run the command for them as root. "man sudo" has all the details. -- Rob
