From: Alex J.Avriette (alex@posixnap.net)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 11:22:01 EDT
I am part of a team of administrators responsible for moving from an
older 2.6 machine where some users had root to a newer 5.8 machine and
sudo. This is being done for reasons of security, auditing, and
configuration management (e.g., "who broke httpd.conf?").
However, these users are relative novices to Unix in general (yes, I'm
aware they shouldn't have been given root in the first place, this
decision was made before my time here), and I'm having a hard time
explaining some of the more intricate details.
An example of this is:
% sudo -u anotheruser chmod 640 filename
They are having some confusion with what exactly the "-u" means, and
how programs can be run as another user. I've given them some
preliminary face-to-face training on the subject, and they seem to have
a better grasp of the process. However, I'd like to give them some
written documentation so they have something to fall back on before
sending in trouble tickets.
I understand I could just give them the sudo manpage, but as with many
users, manpages are somewhat too dense and verbose for them.
Since sudo is such a common solution for the above problems, and
deployed so many places, my assumption is that somebody else has done
this already (I'm thinking university labs). However, going through
google, I'm unable to find anything readily available.
Has anyone got such a primer/guide or know where to find one? Again,
I'm looking for something for the users -- I can use and configure sudo
just fine myself.
I'll summarize.
Thanks,
alex
-- alex@posixnap.net Alex J. Avriette, Unix Systems Gladiator "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California." - Edsger Dijkstra _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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