Re: how to secur root account ?

From: Luke Vogel (luke@bell-bird.com.au)
Date: 03/20/02


From: Luke Vogel <luke@bell-bird.com.au>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:39:37 +1000

Vincent BRAVO wrote:
>
> 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

try sudo

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