On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 04:56:10PM +0000, hicham wrote: > I would like to know if I give a user an ALL privilege in the /etc/sudoers > does he become a superuser than ? > isn't that risky ? The user is effectively superuser, yes. However, it's somewhat better, since there's still an active step -- authenticating with your own credentials -- required to switch into privledged mode. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>