there's lots of good info google found:
A couple walk-through articles -
http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=11&aid=9814
http://freeos.com/articles/3799/
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features192.html
The official site (as found on http://freshmeat.net/ )-
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
Make sure you're not running a vulnerable version, though:
http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=2266
-pete
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Darcy Brodie wrote:
> Rusty Carruth wrote:
>
> > Darcy Brodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > I know that it isn't a good idea to give normal users root access,
> > > but I need to set up a couple of Mandrake boxes (they will only be in
> > > text mode, as these will be remote terminals to a Unix network) so that
> > > a normal user can shut down without having to login as root. The
> > > process needs to be as simple as possible, to prevent the user from
> > > messing it up
> >
> > My favorite trick for that is to make a user 'shutdown' (or something
> > else, if you want it to be a little harder for non-permitted folks to
> > guess it ;-) (cute - spell it backwards: nwodtuhs - oh, never mind ;-)
> >
> > Anyway - give it some password so only those who are supposed to do shutdowns
> > can get to it, and make its shell be /etc/halt or some such.
> >
> > Or - use sudo. That's possibly the best of all possible answers...
> > (never used it myself though, I've always just had anyone who
> > needed to reboot (very small number of folks!) do control/alt/del ;-)
> >
> > rc
> >
> > Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> Sorry, I am not familiar with "sudo". what is it, or where can I find out more
> about it,
>
> Darcy
>
>
