On 19-Oct-99 Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >> Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, >> the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create >> a few accounts for friends. My normal user account will >> be added to the member of the "adm" group. >> >> Questions: >> >> 1) What is the best way to prevent other users (except for my >> normal user) from running programs like dmesg? I suppose >> I could always chgrp the programs to "adm", and change >> permissions to -rwxr-x---. Is this the recommended way? > > Generally, yes, that's close to the preferred way (many people with a BSD > tradition like to use the group wheel).
That is what I do with 'su', who, and other programs I don't want others to be able to run. -- Andrew
