Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, A real dumb question today : I’ve always been the only administrator of servers I installed so I never searched too much on the topic… A new employee has joined the team and he will need to administer the servers (compile ports, etc) Usually, I do a su when I need to do these

Re: Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Ian Lord wrote: Hi, A real dumb question today : I’ve always been the only administrator of servers I installed so I never searched too much on the topic… A new employee has joined the team and he will need to administer the servers (compile ports, etc) Usually, I do a su when I

Re: Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:58:51PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, A real dumb question today : I’ve always been the only administrator of servers I installed so I never searched too much on the topic… A new employee has joined the team and he will need to administer the servers (compile

Re: Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
But that may not be the best way. You really don't want to spread root accounts around a lot. One alternative might be setting up sudo to allow the specific things that this other person needs to do. sudo woul dbe the right way to do: you have fine choice on the various priviledges you