Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:41:23 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: jerrymc@msu.edu Cc: lordi@msdi.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Su newbie question Message-ID: <200705290241.l4T2fNr0007956@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20070529015231.GB26229@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> (message from Jerry McAllister on Mon, 28 May 2007 21:52:31 -0400) References: <032601c7a149$77913cc0$6400a8c0@msdi.local> <20070529015231.GB26229@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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> 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. > sudo woul dbe the right way to do: you have fine choice on the various priviledges you give to the various people; each sudo command is logged so you can trace back in case of problem; you use your own password to sudo so you are not tempted to give it away to another user, even temporar. Olivier
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