superuser privilege

[GDSZSAIGE]

Hi experts:
how can I assign superuser (root) privilege
to a common user?
Thanks.

[vtpaulson]

Hi,

Use sudo or scmd.....

Its easy to configure....


Paulson

[GDSZSAIGE]

Hi Paulson,

Thanks for reply, but I can't find sudo or scmd, Any idea?

James

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Have a look at the following link for 'sudo'. As suggested it is very easy to compile.

http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/index.html

Only other options are
1. Give out the root passwd (not a good idea)
2. Have that user id as uid 0 the same as root. (also bad idea)

HTH
-Michael

[Tim D Fulford]

Hi

If you do not want to compile, try to get sudo from

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

(select your country)

Tim

[Victor BERRIDGE · Accepted solution]

Hi,
You can also download a binary version from your preferred HP Soft Porting and Archive center such as:
http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/

But my concern would be - what for?
depending on your answer, a restricted sam may do just what you want!

Good luck

All the best
Victor

[Duenschede]

Hi,

1. If You plan to use a 2nd root (ID 0) I?d recommand, that You at least force the personal identification on Your system of who is using this account. This means, look the direct remote login as root. You can easely realize this while crating the file /etc/securetty (rights 400) that only contains the word "console". The effect is, that root can only log in directly (without using su) from the console.

2. Perhaps it may be enough, that the user is member of some other groups - for example "sys" to have permission running "dmesg" or to put his logname into /etc/shutdown.allow for allowing him to shut the system for maintenance.

3. Did You think about the Set-user-ID bit ? See command chmod and ls.

Hope, that helps a little.

Regards,
Peter from Heidelberg