On Mon, 02 Mar 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > This way, each research group had special privileges to their > machines, but not any others, and the IT folks still had control. > > Similar things were done at some of the larger companies I worked > for; so there is a use case. (And I think UNIX machines back in the > 80's and early 90's came set up that way by default; I know Ultrix > and OSF/1 did).
It seems to me that most of these cases would be dealt with using sudo now, as it would enable you to restrict the users to having root access on a specific machine, since being in staff means being able to trivially get root on that machine at any time. [And sudo at least has methods of controling and/or accounting the access.] Don Armstrong -- "You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember when you are old." -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
