Thanks, Paul. That helps quite a bit.
Next question: does anyone know of a version for V..., er, OpenVMS?
Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Lussier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 5:30 PM
To: Jerry Eckert
Subject: Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)
In a message dated: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:16:00 EDT
"Jerry Eckert" said:
>What is sudo?
See:
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/index.html
for more information.
Briefly, it's a tool that allows a sysadmin the ability to configure lists
of
users, hosts, and commands and thn allow those certain users to run
certain commands on certain hosts as root.
The most important aspects are that you don't need to give out the root
password, sudo prompts each user for their own password on each command, and
it logs *everything* to syslog, so the sysadmin can look through the logs to
see what commands were run by what users on what hosts.
Commands which aren't allowed or incorrectly typed passwords, etc. are
logged
as well.
It works quite nicely. So nicely in fact, that I have it installed on *all*
my own machines, including my laptop. I'm lazy, it's a lot easier to type:
$ sudo network start
Password:
Than it is to:
$ su - root
Password:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
$ quit
Additionally, you can configure sudo to have a timeout period so that you
don't need to type you password in each and everytime if multiple commands
are
entered within the timeout period. I usually set mine to 5 minutes.
Hope that helps.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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