On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 20:01, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On multi-user systems you should use su to get to root privileges or > even better configure sudo to limit the commands that people can/need to > run as root. It is a nice way to permit people to run certain things as > root but not grant root access to the entire system. Thanks Scot, Sounds like a good idea. I'll look into that. What about running tomcat or apache? Any guidelines on creating users/groups for such as that? regards DaveP