From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 01:56:45 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 1411316A46D for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 01:56:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D062113C465 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 01:56:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4T1qVla026307; Mon, 28 May 2007 21:52:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l4T1qVkK026306; Mon, 28 May 2007 21:52:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 21:52:31 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Ian Lord Message-ID: <20070529015231.GB26229@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <032601c7a149$77913cc0$6400a8c0@msdi.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <032601c7a149$77913cc0$6400a8c0@msdi.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Tue, 29 May 2007 01:56:45 -0000 On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:58:51PM -0400, 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 ? It is possible for there to be more than one account that is root. Just make it have UID 0 and GID 0. Use vipw to do that. It is common to make an R id as root for a person. - Say the regular id is joe then you might make an Rjoe account with UID and GID of 0. But that may not be the best way. You really don't want to spread root accounts around a lot. One alternative might be setting up sudo to allow the specific things that this other person needs to do. ////jerry > > Thanks > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Ian Lord > > MSD Informatique > > 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 > > Tél: (514) 776-MSDI -> (514) 776-6734 > > Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI -> 1(877) 776-6734 > > http://www.msdi.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >