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.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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