From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 17:18:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C3516A482 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 17:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordi@msdi.ca) Received: from spamfirewall.msdsky.com (spamfirewall.msdsky.com [64.18.66.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C579F13C447 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 17:18:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordi@msdi.ca) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1180371531-5d8300150000-jLrpzn X-Barracuda-URL: http://spamfirewall.msdsky.com:80/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: unknown[64.18.67.9] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1180371531 Received: from mail02.msdihosting.net (unknown [64.18.67.9]) by spamfirewall.msdsky.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 17BCCD306 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 12:58:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dell390 ([70.83.204.175]) by mail02.msdihosting.net ((iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003))) with ASMTP id QRI44553 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 12:59:01 -0400 From: "Ian Lord" To: X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Su newbie question Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 12:58:51 -0400 Message-ID: <032601c7a149$77913cc0$6400a8c0@msdi.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Thread-Index: AcehSXdojOfGB5N+S+qg2+Teq19ULA== X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at msdsky.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Su newbie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:18:14 -0000 Hi, =20 A real dumb question today : I=92ve always been the only administrator = of servers I installed so I never searched too much on the topic=85 =20 A new employee has joined the team and he will need to administer the servers (compile ports, etc) =20 Usually, I do a su when I need to do these tasks, so I wonder if = everybody needs to know that password or if he could have his own password to su ? =20 Thanks =20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Mont=E9e Major Terrebonne (Qu=E9bec) J7M 1E6 T=E9l: (514) 776-MSDI -> (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI -> 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca =20