From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 20: 3: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E314237B401 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exgw2.lumeta.com (exgw2.lumeta.com [65.198.68.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD4443E42 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:03:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tal@lumeta.com) Received: from lucy.corp.lumeta.com (h65-198-68-133.lumeta.com [65.198.68.133]) by exgw2.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187DE373839 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:03:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C0210823 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:02:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lumeta.com (guard.lumeta.com [65.198.68.131]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9960A1081E for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:02:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D35BFB9.FFEAFF17@lumeta.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:04:25 -0400 From: Tom Limoncelli Organization: Lumeta Corp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su to root References: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18703BC5BBE@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Balaji, Pavan" wrote: > I wonder what exactly this means. I don't remember seeing any option for > creating/not-creating the wheel group while installation. It means "Install 'sudo' so that you get tighter control over who can do what, and much better logging." :-) I've known about sudo for ages but only started using it. After learning the configuration syntax, I've found it a great little utility. There are now many cases where I used to hand out root access but now I only have to give sudo access to a particular command. (Disclaimer: you shouldn't give sudo access to any command that you haven't personally audited or you may be giving the person full root access without knowing it.) --tal -- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@lumeta.com -- www.lumeta.com http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message