If you give your system administrators the ability to "sudo su - " then absolutely. Most, if not all of the tasks I've ever needed to execute on SUSE and Red Hat via their tools prompt for the root password if you're not logged in as root. That's just about as good, since you're only doing what you need to do as root, and then you're reverted back to a non-privileged state.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Myers Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:07 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Will SUDO work for every admin task? Just curious...will SUDO work for ALL zLinux admin tasks (SuSE and Redhat) ? Or, is root ID needed for certain tasks? Thanks, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
