Le lun 17/03/2003 � 12:34, Buchan Milne a �crit : > Apps->File Management->File Manager super-user mode (type password of > course)
True, I completely forgot about that. However, it asks for password every time, even if you check the "save password" option. > >>->Mandrake Control Center, type their root password > >>->Webmin (for Samba), type their root password > Or change the perms on /etc/samba/smb.conf to give a certain group write > access ... That's an excellent suggestion. Is it in a howto somewhere? > >>And when there's two or more admins, and that one has to manage a > >>computer that belongs to someone else and whose root password consists > >>of something like "p%G45l;*", they never remember it. So they call the > >>other sysadmin on his cellphone, and the poor guy has to give the root > >>password while in the middle of a meeting, and since there's > >>interference, he has to yell, so everyone at the meeting knows the root > >>password. > > This applies whether the person is logging into a dm or the console or > running su. And it needs to be addressed, similar to the rights Of course, but in 99% of the Windows shops I have visited, the machines are in a locked room, and logged as Administrator, so you only need the key to the server room to manage the machines. In places where they don't do that, or have unix machines, the root password is written on a post-it note on the screen ;-) > management Windows has. Maybe just a gui for sudo. sudo urpmi would > solve this if there were a gui. And it should have integation with some > network information system like LDAP. Yes, sudo is definitely better, because you enter *your* password (which you have to remember anyway), and not the root password, and it doesn't ask for it all the time. Draksudo would be a nice addition =) Jean-Michel
