Re: sudo [was: Re: your mail]

2000-12-06 Thread David Talkington
Greg Black wrote: >> sudo definitely helps if it's carefully administered, but it still >> grants root access to a file, > >This is wrong -- sudo will grant access with whatever user >privileges you wish to grant, maybe root and maybe some other >user. It all depends on the way you set it up. W

Re: your mail

2000-12-06 Thread David Talkington
> >I think what you're looking for is something similar (or exactly >like) 'sudo'.. sudo definitely helps if it's carefully administered, but it still grants root access to a file, which may not really be what you want. As a Unix advocate in general, I'm looking forward to seeing how well Sun doe