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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2007 09:41:23 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        jerrymc@msu.edu
Cc:        lordi@msdi.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Su newbie question
Message-ID:  <200705290241.l4T2fNr0007956@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <20070529015231.GB26229@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> (message from Jerry McAllister on Mon, 28 May 2007 21:52:31 -0400)
References:  <032601c7a149$77913cc0$6400a8c0@msdi.local> <20070529015231.GB26229@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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> But that may not be the best way.   You really don't want to spread
> root accounts around a lot.   One alternative might be setting up
> sudo to allow the specific things that this other person needs to do.
>
sudo woul dbe the right way to do: you have fine choice on the various
priviledges you give to the various people; each sudo command is
logged so you can trace back in case of problem; you use your own
password to sudo so you are not tempted to give it away to another
user, even temporar.

Olivier



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