[Re: [Re: [SunHELP] Locking down root]]

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Maybe a little safer would be to use sudo.  Can't remember the web site
> but it is easy to find.

Search freshmeat.net for "sudo".  Pre-compiled binaries should be on
sunfreeware.net (or what that .com?  I don't remember...)

> It allows users to execute commands as root without having to have
> roots passwd but they still have to be authenticated and they are
> logged as well. Worth looking into.

Especially since you can use it to control who can run which programs as
root from where.


Phil