On Tuesday 11 September 2007 10:33, PJ wrote: > [snip] > Sudo, as suggest earlier, looks like the simplest way. Maybe combined > with script and a special editor wrapper. But the original poster > will have to examine the situation more closely to see if it is > appropriate.
I'm still not convinced that you can give someone root without trusting them completely. If it were only a question of editing files, I'd say let them edit a local copy as normal user, check it into a CVS repository and then some task (automated or manual) could pull out from the CVS and put the file(s) into the proper place. Much better control and tracking. Or SVN, or whatever (before this thread degrades into a version control flamefest). Once you give someone root or sudo for any non-trivial task you are effectively giving them root for anything. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
