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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Prevent user from editing /etc/passwd
- Message-ID: <sheldon.714323197@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Aug17.131329.22491@cpp.ob.open.de>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:06:37 GMT
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- In <1992Aug17.131329.22491@cpp.ob.open.de> schweik@cpp.ob.open.de (Martin Schweikert) writes:
-
- >Hi!
-
- >I have a user on my SVR3 machine who knows - and must know :-( - the
- >root password.
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- Why does this user need to know the root password?
-
- A possible workaround would be to implement the 'sudo' command as described
- in 'The Unix System Administration Handbook' by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass
- Prentice-Hall, 1989.
-
- This will let you give the user the ability only to execute selected
- root privileged commands.
-
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- Steve Sheldon sheldon@iastate.edu
- Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
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