[NTLUG:Discuss] su?

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Thu Jul 12 22:52:12 CDT 2001


In SMIT just make sure the user is setup so they can SU to other
users (you'll see it in the User Administration panel).

Give www a password and you're ready to go.

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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