On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Michael C. Robinson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Standard on Linux is that root can read any file on the local file
> system.  Unfortunately, to get OpenDNS to update via ddclient, you
> have to know the username and password of the account that needs
> updating.  Is it possible to connect a password to ddclient.conf
> or better yet require entry of the password in the file before it
> can be opened?  Basically, what I am interested in is password
> protecting a single file and requiring that even the super user
> enter that password to access it, unless the super user wants to
> delete it.  This way, in a sense, there can be more than one superuser
> and it becomes possible to delegate maintenance of OpenDNS for example
> to someone else.
>
> Frankly, I think it is stupid that you can't ask the OpenDNS servers
> to update an account without logging in to that account, hint hint.
> OpenDNS should be asking for the host name assigned to ones dynamic ip
> address instead of the current ip anyways.
>
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That's the whole idea behind sudo.

Drew-
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