>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...??? for small tasks, the sudo and super packages might help, they allow some users to execute some applications as root. for biger tasks, you need to write some application to handle this. for example you could write an account management system, that has itīs own security system: who may do what. that application would run setuid root, so everyone can execute it, but will check who executed it, and only allow some operations (e.g. manage the accounts of your department, neither accounts of other parts of the company nor system accounts). maybe someone already wrote this ? check freshmeat.net or other sources. regards, andreas - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
