Not quite. Anyone in the 'sudoers' list can get root access via sudo. Why not do it the way unix does it? Create a root-enabled program which validates whether the particular user has privilege to do the requested activity, then passes it along to the system. Then you are in control of who gets what privileges.
-Keith > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Farrant > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] Universe without root access > > Thanks Ray, > > I think this answers my question... > > In other words if you are not root authorised at UNIX you cannot under > any circumstances be a super-user at Universe level, no matter how you > setup/install Universe since Universe uses UNIX to authenticate. > > Is that right? > > I was thinking it might have been possible to create a different > security level (not root) that Universe could sit on thinking it was > root and therefore setting the 'super-user flag' to true and allowing > Universe admin that requires super-user access. > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Wurlod > Sent: 26 September 2005 05:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] Universe without root access > > Well, you can certainly delegate certain printer control tasks via > printer groups. > > Apart from that, the only non-root users with any kind of > administrative > privileges are uvadm and uvsql (if you've set these up). > > Since UniVerse uses operating system authentication, you > won't get very > far with these without superuser access. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
