Sudo is really the simplest and more robust solution. Also you can track log info.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Freeman, Michael Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:23 PM To: dubaisans dubai; [email protected] Subject: RE: root group in solaris Typically you would add someone to the 'wheel' user group on a UNIX system if you want them to have those privileges. You must make sure that the tools you want users to have access to are also members of the 'wheel' group (chgrp), if it is not already setup that way by default. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_security http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dubaisans dubai Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 7:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: root group in solaris Hi, I would like to give root user privileges to a set of OS administrators. Everyone has individual user-ids on the system. Currently they login with their personal ID and then SU to root. I donot want to share root password with these many people. I am thinking of adding all these users to the "root" group[GID 0]. Will it provide root-equivalent UID O access to these users. If not why ? Does the "root" group not have root user-id equivalent privileges? Is it possible manually to make the GID 0 privileges equivalant of UID O? How else can I give these individual users root privileges - make all of them UID 0 or something.? Is that a smart idea? I am looking at something simpler than SUDO or RBAC
