On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:13:58PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
>
> Can somone point me to a good doc on using "su"..
>
> I have always just logged in a root because security was not really an
> issue, but now I need to operate in a more secure fashion as far as user
> account controls are concerned so the starting point I feel is to not
> allow root to login directly with ssh..
>
> This means I have to get to grips with the ins and outs of "su" but the
> man page is a little shy.. anyone got any useful info?
With a standard user account if you type or click one of the 60+ administrative
functions you will be prompted for the root pass word. i.e. For these things
you do not need to do a "su -".
Because this set of tools that take advantage of "consolehelper" is so
rich you may not need "su -" as often as you expect.
Try "up2date" ....
If you are new to a unix system scan the man pages on the list of 60+
that you see when you type this in a console window:
file /usr/bin/* | grep consolehelper
....
/usr/bin/up2date: symbolic link to `consolehelper'
....
Then:
man up2date
This will give you a clue of the list of tools and functions that the
system admin might need to touch. Most people will only need a
dozen, so don't require of yourself to poke at them all ;-).
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