On (07/11/03 04:27), Alex Malinovich wrote: > To: debuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:27:01 -0600 > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Alex Malinovich wrote: [snip] > > > So any ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different > > > users with the same UID? i.e. adduser --uid 0 --gid 0 temproot > > > > > > If not, any other possibilities? > > > > What about sudo? You can set it up to grant very limited permissions > > (i.e., one or two commands only) to a specific user. > > I never really know what I'll need them to do, so it's not really > viable. It could be changing network settings one day (so I'd have to > allow access to ifconfig, route, export2fs, etc), user admin another day > (passwd, adduser, etc), and package management after that (dpkg, apt, > etc). That would become very unmanageable very quickly. > Not a problem - in your sudoers file (visudo) put user ALL=(ALL) ALL
which will give that user full root privileges when they use the sudo command. Regards Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
