[Trilug-ontopic] sysadmin questions

Brian McCullough bdmc at bdmcc-us.com
Sat Jun 12 17:16:38 EDT 2010


On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 04:59:12PM -0400, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> > See if you have the command "vigr" in your system. ( I am presuming that you are familiar with "vi." )
> 
> I suggest using groupadd(8) instead.

I agree about groupadd, but I was talking about the default group, or are you planning to have them with "individual" groups?


> BTW your system, if it is a RHEL/CentOS system, will already have a
> 'wheel' group, and you should add any people who need root access to
> this group, and then you should use the 'visudo' command:
> 
>   sudo /usr/sbin/visudo
> 
> And then you can make sure you have lines like this:
> 
> ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
> %wheel  ALL=(ALL)       ALL
> 
> So that anybody in the wheel group will have use of sudo.


Good ideas.  Do his developers actually need root access, or is that just what he is used to?



Toodles,
Brian




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