On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the ether:
> OK , but is there any way that I can have/make more than one super-users ? To this
man vipw. Remember uid = 0 is a superuser. sudo offers some degree of
discrimination. Otherwise build your kernel with capabilities support,
and use those. Or compile with XFS suppoort and use the XFS acls.
Don't bother about usernames, they only serve to make the number human
friendly.
> end , can I play off a uid and make a person a super-user (my experiment already did
> not work - the guy I rewarded with a uid of 40 , was absolutely a normal user in
> every sense of the term , with not a modicum of super-user powers !)
System user != superuser.
> I man-ed sudo , but all the wording was incomprehensible , so I still do not
> know how to get say , user1 to sudo on a command. I suppose there are a hundred and
> one other solutions out there.
Search for a sudo tutorial online/show us what you did, so that the
list members can comment.
Line length <=76 please.
Devdas Bhagat
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