Juha Jäykkä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can that _safely_ be accomplished? There are versions of su, > sudo etc) that do not ask passwords, there are suid binaries but > which is _THE_ way of accomplishing this?
I've never been in a situation like yours. But I can tell how I do it at home. I think this might be possible for you, too. What you want to accomplish might be possible with sudo. Install sudo and thenn add the following line to the configuration file. (/etc/sudoers on my machine) <yourusername> ALL=(ALL) ALL this will allow you to execute any command you want with sudo <command> but you still don't have to know the root password. The password you're providing when executing sudo is yours. Bye, patrice