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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:46:52 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Permissions Question & Re: Permissions advice needed
Message-ID:  <200701091446.56873.kirk@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070109.110256.14368.1628204@webmail23.nyc.untd.com>
References:  <20070109.110256.14368.1628204@webmail23.nyc.untd.com>

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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:01 pm, gs_stoller@juno.com wrote:

> On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote:

>> You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one
>> command as root.

> One has to be very careful about giving out such access!
> root has much power.

Hence "sudo", where you're giving them exactly one permission: the ability=
=20
to execute one specific read-only command.
=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser

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