On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Adam Voigt wrote: > sudo is an ever-popular choice, just create a user account in addition > to the default "root" account, and then just specify what they can do > with sudo with "visudo". Doesn't a sudo user have to enter a password for every command? If you have to occasionally do something root-like, that's not too bad. But if you are really trying to do some complicated administrating, it would get old in a hurry. > > > On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 10:12, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > > Let me pose a situation where having multiple root-capable accounts makes > > sense, and let me ask: What's the best way to acomplish this? > > > > We have several Linux workstations and laptops. Each user can have root > > on his own machine, but we don't want a user to have root on any other > > machine. We have a department administrator who needs root on all > > machines, but he doens't want to have to remember individual root > > passwords on all the machines. > > > > Our Windows solution is to create two administrator-capable accounts. How > > can we best do the same with Linux machines? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
