user with root priviledge
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue Apr 20 00:27:32 UTC 2004
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Adam Voigt wrote:
> sudo is an ever-popular choice, just create a user account in addition
> to the default "root" account, and then just specify what they can do
> with sudo with "visudo".
Doesn't a sudo user have to enter a password for every command? If you
have to occasionally do something root-like, that's not too bad. But if
you are really trying to do some complicated administrating, it would get
old in a hurry.
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 10:12, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >
> > Let me pose a situation where having multiple root-capable accounts makes
> > sense, and let me ask: What's the best way to acomplish this?
> >
> > We have several Linux workstations and laptops. Each user can have root
> > on his own machine, but we don't want a user to have root on any other
> > machine. We have a department administrator who needs root on all
> > machines, but he doens't want to have to remember individual root
> > passwords on all the machines.
> >
> > Our Windows solution is to create two administrator-capable accounts. How
> > can we best do the same with Linux machines?
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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