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[Jonathan E. Brickman]

> As with all things in Linux/unix there are different methodology for 
> doing different things.  If this is a personal box, or just one that you 
> administer, the easiest way for you to make sure you have access to 
> everything you need is to make sure you user is in /etc/sudoers.  Once you 
> are in there as an "ALL" user, you can simply access restricted things by 
> using sudo to do it.  For example, "sudo cat /var/somelog" or "sudo 
> /sbin/shutdown" will ask you for a password - YOURS not roots, and then 
> perform the specified task as a system superuser.  
> 
> -- 
> -Linc Fessenden
> 

I thoroughly agree.  Linc, do you know of a good GUI sudo configurator?
sudo is the best permissions-override system I know of (although, come
to think of it, there are at least two or three more in the Ubuntu
repository I have not tried!  Hmmm), but its configuration complexity
drives me batty.

J.E.B.

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