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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:38:01 -0400
From:      bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to watch the root user?
Message-ID:  <7muo54$reg$1@twwells.com>
References:  <7muhbs$hdn$1@twwells.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907190100020.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>

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In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907190100020.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>,
Vincent Poy  <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> wrote:
:       Ah, sudo or super.  But would they need to login as themself then
: need another password sort of like su before they get the privileges or is
: there a way so they can default login and it has only those commands?

There are such things as "restricted shells", which are supposed
to provide a restricted set of commands and functionality but the
security on those has always been questionable. There may actually
be such a beast which is actually secure but I would not bet money
on it. However, it would be easy enough to whip up a little perl
"shell" to run a set of commands and there may be some menuing
systems that will work for this but you'd have to go looking....


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