On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:38, Mark Gardner wrote: > >sudo is better than straight su anyway. > >Try this sudo trick: > >sudo su - > >This is the same as doing "su -" but it uses sudo and your own password > >rather than the root password. > >Michael > > > OK knowing this what dictates who can sudo to root?
This is dictated by the /etc/sudoers file. For details, see man sudoers. Easier said than done--there's a lot of stuff in that man page. I've probably only made use of a couple lines of it. Casey
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