Allowing a user administrative tasks without roots password

[Sean Craig]

take a look at 'sudo'.  This is probably what you need. 

regards

Sean Craig


Louis Garcia wrote:

>I was wondering if it was possible to create a root like account but
>having it locked. This way you can control who has access to what
>without having to give up roots password.
>
>Lets say you allow users to change the clock. They call up the Date &
>Time capplet but instead of giving roots password they give this new
>account password. So now a user can modify the time but not be able to
>log in as root and do horrible thinks.
>
>Is this doable, or is more complicated? Maybe ACL would be better for
>this.
>
>
>--Lou
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