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Subject: Re: Permissions Question
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I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario?

On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote:
> On Monday 08 January 2007 12:07 pm, Jay Chandler wrote:
>
> > I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
> > file.  We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
> > heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
>
> You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one command as root.
> --
> Kirk Strauser
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>


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