How can I assign priviliges to users for certain tasks?

[Joseph Lupo]

I'd like to be able to give some people in my department access to do certain
tasks on our HP-UX 10.20 system like changing passwords without giving them
full root access. Is this possible?

[Simon Waters_2]

Yes

Use restricted SAM. See 'man sam'.

I think you may want to install the latest SAM megapatch, as I believe if you
delegate passwd control in early version the person can change the root
password.

If you want a finer level of control look at 'sudo', and suid scripts, but you
are likely to create security holes if you do too much yourself.

[Anthony Goonetilleke_1]

You can use the restricted sam builder by invoking SAM as follows

sam -r

The rest is fairly self explanatory you can assign tasks/permissions etc to
groups or individual users.