On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> Hi, Nadav!
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:37:08PM +0200, you wrote the following:
>
> > But the more traditional way to solve your problem is to give each person
> > his own personal account, and when that person needs root-like privileges
> > he or she does "su".
>
> But then there's only one root password. I think the idea behind many
> UID 0 users is that you can give them different passwords, and then if
> you need to revoke root access from that person, you delete the
> account, and you don't need to bother everyone else with a new root
> password.
However, as previously mentioned, a better solution to the multiple-
password problem is using sudo(8) that enables users be root using their own
passwords, and enables root to change access by editing the sudoers file.
Note, however, that once a user has root, s/he can do anything on your
system, such as creating a backdoor for themselves and removing all evidence
from logs.
Alon
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