sudo is by far the best solution for what you want. It is includes good
tracking of what is being done as root.
alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Togan Muftuoglu"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [SLE] root HELP
| * A_Johnson-SuseML-e [010531 20:39]:
| > Hello,
| >
| > few FAQs on disabling services, changing permissions and general
| > stuff....now I want to create a user that has ROOT ablites with out the
ROOT
| > name. Sounds Easy, I thought it was but NOPE, none of them work
entirely
| > right, kind of like a co-worker of mine ;p Anyway that's my issue.
| >
|
| use "sudo " man sudo will explain you everything and once you set it
| you can just log in as a normal user and then by issuing the sudo
| /path/whatever/command you can achieve what you want AFAIK
|
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