Allowing a user administrative tasks without roots password
Sean Craig
seanc at tech-access.com
Tue Oct 14 08:29:42 UTC 2003
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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