On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:13:43PM -0800, Beri, Rohit wrote: > Now I am wondering how good of an idea is this... and if there are any > applications/system controls that might adversely get affected by this. It's a fairly bad idea; you might as well just be logging in as root. However, in FC3, there *is* a better way. I posted about this in the devel group a while ago: <https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-December/msg00369.html> Basically, you can make it so members of an admin group (traditionally, "wheel") can authenticate with their own credentials (password, normally), in order to do tasks which require root. This information is then cached for a short time, so if you're doing a lot of stuff, you don't have to keep typing your password, but if you walk away from your system, someone else can't just come up later and get root. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
