how to secur root account ?

From: Vincent BRAVO (vbravo@free.fr)
Date: 03/20/02 

From: "Vincent BRAVO" <vbravo@free.fr>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:06:31 +0100

i'm wondering about the best way to secur an NIS.
for the moment 30 users are using root account, i want to restrict root
account uses.
how to do it simply?
how to distribute some of root's privileges to personal admin account?

thanks for your help

Regards,

Vincent

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