I'm new to this list (today) but, you might want to check out the program
called sudo... It will allow you to execute certain programs as a specified
user etc etc. It should be easy enough to find on www.freshmeat.net
-Clinton McLeay
www.dimension6.com
Arcana wrote:
> (Side note: I am convinced that Outlook Express and I.E.5 suck. Back to
> Netscape on my Win98 machine.)
>
> Anyway. To the point.
>
> I'd like to give privileges to a non-root account so I can do some minor
> maintenance and other little things without logging in as root.
>
> For instance, I'd like to be able to run the following commands as
> non-SU:
>
> ifconfig
> ifdown
> ifup
> ipchains
> (reading kernel logs)
> shutdown (or its derivatives)
>
> Does anyone have resources for me or a simple way to do it?
>
> (Perhaps it involves adding the non-SU user to group "root"? Or maybe
> changing file permissions or groups to something other than "root"...
> but is that secure?)
>
> --
> Thank you,
>
> Arcana
