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Re: [tlug] on root logins (1)



On Dec.29 14h58, Michael Reinsch wrote :
> 
> So I'm still not convinced that giving an administrator more rights in a
> general way as you described (adding his user to the sys group *1) is a
> good idea. In my opinion, an administrator should be required to
> deliberately switch to a status with more rights (*2) for a certain
> task, instead of having those rights all the time.

What if you have for example a group 'admin', whose users are *only* 
allowed the right to add themselves to the group 'sys' for the next 
N commands, the group 'sys' being allowed enough rights to administrate 
the system?

Just an idea...

Evan

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