-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Hendrix [mailto:tgjp@thezone.net] > Subject: Priviledges for Administrators... ... > Is there a method of giving a user a certain administrative > priviledge without having to give them "root" priviledges... For > example, NT and Novell offers certain priviledges for people to be > able to handle > specific tasks (like backups, printer etc..)... How can this be > done with Linux, without giving the user "root" access...??? check out the package sudo (super user do) which allows you to grant "execution-right as root" for certain executables (to be configured using visudo) from certain machines to certain users. These users then should execute the command using sudo command commandarguments After which the sudo program will check whether the user has permission to execute the given command logged in from his current machine. The user then must enter her own user-password. On successfull authentication, the command is executed with root-privileges. successfull Execution of sudo (and the executed command) is by default logged. One drawback in my opinion is: the default settings allow repetitive trying to enter user-password. but then again passwd does so too. ******* Groetjes vanwege ***** Greetings From ******* Dieter Demerre - http://www.angelfire.com/de/ddemerre ddemerre@acm.org - ext.dieter.demerre@siemens.be -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOWmsLQlG34XnM6kpEQJrWACePfKMggkavJUzBUjCikmccxZYluIAoOdp C8W64V8M4nhmFmcd4WlMP3Ra =LOrn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
