Re: Too many admins..

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Trevor Schroeder wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Majestic One wrote:
> 
> > we have a couple of boxes and are four admins. I find myself (and 
> > others) working as root to often. So I wounder is there a group I can 
> > place myself and the others in so I can work as normal user but have 
> > root capabilities. Meaning if i create a file it is owned by me but 
> 
> Yes and no.  There are some groups that tend to have higher priviledges (by
> the filesystem, not by the kernel.  AFAIK, the kernel only recognizes
> UID 0 as special.  It doesn't give a flying foo what your GID is).
> 
> However, neither is anywhere near givivg you superuser perms.  If they
> were, why not just su?  (That's the classic UNIX attitude: only 1
> superuser.  Personally, I can think of a reason or two)
> 
> Anyhow, wheel and operator typically have access to some extra files.
> (though often it's read-only)  You could also set up sudo.

i second taking a look at sudo, we use it.

diana

Diana Eichert
deichert@wrench.com