Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!mouse From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Reasons for restricting su privilege? Keywords: su, restricted-su Message-ID: <1371@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 23:28:15 GMT References: <6606@pyr.gatech.EDU> <3948@encore.UUCP> <479@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 20 In article <479@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>, linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) writes: > In article <3948@encore.UUCP> bzs@xenna (Barry Shein) writes: >> (an attribution line seems to be missing here) >>> I'm having a problem convincing some of the people around here of >>> the dangers of having several super users. One of our faculty >>> members insists upon having the privilege, for whenever one of the >>> normal super users isn't around. Why not grant it? Are you that certain this person is not competent to handle the privilege? Remember, you're there to serve your user community, of which this person is presumably a part. (If not, then why pay any attention at all?) Not that this necessarily has any bearing on your situation; you'll have to be the judge of that. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu