sudo is definitely the way to go; however, you should be very careful. List the specific operations that the users will need to perform as root and give them privilege to those *and only those* with sudo.
Then go through the list again and double and even triple check if you really need to be assigning all those rights to all those users. You can *never* be too careful. What are you giving these users root rights for anyway? Sounds to me like a recipe for disaster. Ian ------------ Dr Ian Firla Robert Graves Trust | "A partial count of the software available St John's College, Oxford | in just one noncommerical Linux system OX1 3JP - +44-(0)7855-310565 | would have cost about $1.9 billion to develop http://www.robertgraves.org | ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Leroy Hogan wrote: > > Doh! I forgot that one. > > Thanks, > > Ram Roy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Mike > Burger > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 9/25/02 11:16:55 PM > > Subject: Re: users with root > priviledges > > > > > > "man sudo"...it'll give you exactly what you need. > > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, LeRoy Hogan wrote: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Have you bugged a MS Windows lover today? > > Remember the word windows is not owned by MS so anyone can use > it. > > > > I was told to make up users to have root priviledges instead of them > > > just using root. This way we could keep a bash_history on them to help > > > in troubleshooting anything that could go wrong. > > > > I set these users up with UID of 0. On the command line it works ok. > > > Doing anything on KDE utilities is not ok. I hate these users. > > > > Anybody in their right mind do anything like this or has a better > idea? > > > > Thanks, > > Roy > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seawolf-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list give > you exactly what you need. > > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, LeRoy Hogan wrote: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Have you bugged a MS Windows lover today? > > Remember the word windows is not owned by MS so anyone can use > it. > > > > I was told to make up users to have root priviledges instead of them > > > just using root. This way we could keep a bash_history on them to help > > > in troubleshooting anything that could go wrong. > > > > I set these users up with UID of 0. On the command line it works ok. > > > Doing anything on KDE utilities is not ok. I hate these users. > > > > Anybody in their right mind do anything like this or has a better > idea? > > > > Thanks, > > Roy > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seawolf-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --- Leroy Hogan > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
