[Gllug] Why have root passwords at all?

[Dean Wilson]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:16:47PM +0000, Matthew Cooke wrote:

It's not as automagical as a system call interceptor (which is a good
thing) but sudo does most of what you want.

> [bob at localhost]> /etc/init.d/httpd restart
> You do not currently have permission, please type admin password: ****
> httpd [stop]
> httpd error

[bob at localhost]> /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Permission denied

[bob at localhost]> sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

> no user input for a while or a certain command causes the escalated 
> privileges to be lost.

sudo does this, five minutes by default. Or you can sudo -k.

  Dean
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