On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one
>> command as root.

> One has to be very careful about giving out such access!
> root has much power.

Hence "sudo", where you're giving them exactly one permission: the ability 
to execute one specific read-only command.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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