Re: Linux and viruses, worms, etc (newbie)

From: Rick Moen (rick_at_linuxmafia.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:57:39 -0500

houghi <houghi@houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
> I know. I am not interested in doing things as root. I am interested how
> people share the root pasword. For some reason you will need the root
> pasword and when you have a 24/7/365 severpark to watch, you will have
> them needing it just at the moment the person who has the rootpasword is
> on a flight to the other end of the world in a 16 hour non stop flight
> and you have contrcat that says you will never be down more then 30
> minutes.
>
> So how and who maintains or keeps the rootpasword when a group of people
> potentially might need it?

This is plainly a job for sudo. 

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