topic Re: Root user ..... in Operating System - HP-UX

Root user .....

mvr — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:17:49 GMT

I need to give a root rights to the few administrators, so they don't have to use the root user for the login. How can I accomplish this on the HP-UX 11 server ?

Re: Root user .....

Pete Randall — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:21:01 GMT

The safest way would be to acquire and install a copy of sudo. You don't want a bunch of people running around with root privileges.

Pete

Re: Root user .....

Clemens van Everdingen — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:25:50 GMT

Hi,

I would suggest you start using sudo !

See:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.6/

This will be the safest way to use root with more than one person without knowing the root password at all.

C.

Re: Root user .....

Ken Hubnik_2 — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:41:16 GMT

sudo is the best way and it logs so you have an audit trail for security.

Re: Root user .....

Victor_5 — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:18:51 GMT

I heard many people mentioning sudo, however, it is not supported by hp, you may consider to use SCM although it is a little bit complex, see more at

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8339-90030/B8339-90030_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8339-90030/00/00/50-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8339-90030/00/00/50-toc.html&searchterms=scm&queryid=20021119-082217

Re: Root user .....

Pete Randall — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:35:07 GMT

Depending on what they need to do, you could also look at restricted SAM (sam -r).

Pete

Re: Root user .....

Victor_5 — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:37:06 GMT

You are right, Pete. sam -r is another way.