[NTLUG:Discuss] su?

[Michael Patrick]

Maybe I am missing something... why not just su to the user in question?  Does that work on AIX?  I just su'd from one mortal account to another on my Redhat system... just needed the password for the other account.  You might could look into sudo too.

Michael

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:30:29PM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote:
> I need to allow an ordinary iuser to create files and change the
> ownership of the file to another account. The other account is
> www, which is used by a Front-Page enabled web server. (It's an
> AIX system we're talking about, but I know you folks will know
> what to do.)
>  
> The easiest way to do this, obviously, would be to allow user A
> to su to the www account. But is this even possible? 
> 
> I guess my question is: how do I give a single, ordinary user,
> the ability to act as a special user such as www, without giving
> him root access? 
> 
> Any thoughts?
>  
> Lance Simmons
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