user with root priviledge

[Matthew Saltzman]

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

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