On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:32:17PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> I found /etc/sudoers on there when I was seeing how this strange new OS
> worked and noticed my user had been added to the wheel group and that
> wheel had full sudo access. I began wondering why linux distros didn't
> do that :-)
But redhat _do_ do that. Well actually something very much
like that. consolehelper is a sudo like tool which is lets
you run reboot, powerdown etc... without a password.
Actually a lot of proggies use it:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/ |grep ' -> consolehelper'|wc -l
54
Matt
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug