Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Jon == Jon Björklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jon What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as Jon root but at the same time it shouldn't be root. There are several ways of doing that. `secure-su' lets you set things up so that certain users can `su' to become

Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Marcus == Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcus If you want to give ceed access to floppy, cd, sound and Marcus other, add ceed at the end of the appropriate lines in Marcus your /etc/group file. This file controls the access for Marcus common files and devices.

my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread Jon Björklund
Hi there guys! I am using Debian 1.3.1 and finds it a perfekt linuxdistribution. But there is one _very_ BiG problem in all unices I have tested, and that is the users and root. What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as root but at the same time it shouldn't be root. Is there

Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Jon Björklund wrote: What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as root but at the same time it shouldn't be root. Is there a way of fixing this?? Well, you can use sudo, which lets normal users to superuser tasks. And I do not want to go around su:ing

Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread AzCaPpY
Not to mention it is EXTREMELY dangerous to your system since root can wipe out your system. Root cannot log in remotely due to security restraints... but if you give normal usernames root capabilities... they can log in remote thus creating a security breach. It is better to leave root and the

Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:14:43AM -0800, Jon Björklund wrote: Hi there guys! I am using Debian 1.3.1 and finds it a perfekt linuxdistribution. But there is one _very_ BiG problem in all unices I have tested, and that is the users and root. What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as