user with root priviledge

[jludwig]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 16:16, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> > That was my point and my original reply was directed toward the OP and 
> > those who seem to feel his request was a good idea. 
> 
> 
> One other (so far unmentioned) advantage to sudo vs direct root access 
> is that since sudo uses a user's own password, you don't have to worry 
> about securely propogating changes to the actual root password(s) to 
> your collection of admins every time you need to (or want to) change them.
> 
> One drawback to this is that if an admin gets their password sniffed by 
> an intruder, your intruder now has sudo access...
Be careful of one thing with sudo. The sudo is by default time limited
to 5 minutes.  In a secure environment it would be wise to change this
to a per command setting. -- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>