* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'su -' and become root where everything is allowed. > 'sudo' or a gui derivative. If the user has been authorized by root, > just run the whole command with root priviledges as the user can > obviously be trusted.
You could also try my su-wrapper - it maps specific uid+cmdline to another uid+cmdline. Fine for things like allowing specific users to dialup, etc. > Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that they > will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that doesn't > need root to install. Hmmmm. *rofl* Well, that's just the "good old" M$ way ;-P cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
