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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Su newbie question
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Ian Lord wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> A real dumb question today : I’ve always been the only administrator of
> servers I installed so I never searched too much on the topic…
> 
>  
> 
> A new employee has joined the team and he will need to administer the
> servers (compile ports, etc)
> 
>  
> 
> 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 ?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks

sudo's a better idea.

-Garrett