On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What would be the best way to enable her to run the shutdown command, without
> creating a giant security hole which might bite me in the @*% should this
> machine ever become a gateway? My thoughts up to this point:
Why don't you use sudo? It allows you to execute root commands as a
normal user. I believe you can (as root) specify which users are allowed
to do which commands in the /etc/sudoers file. We have a .deb of sudo
someplace ... hit www.debian.org and find it.
Will
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