Re: "Super" User ID

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 03/30/04


Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:56:59 -0500

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:06:20 -0500, spingus
  <spingus@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> I presently have multiple Unix User IDs that are part of the same group. =
> When I have to kill some of the hanged up processes I have to log in as =
> the user ID to whom the process belongs. Otherwise I do not have =
> permission.
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> Can I create a "super user" ID which can kill processes that belong to =
> other user IDs without using the powers of the root? Let's say something =
> limited only to users that belong to a particular group...
>
> I am very new at this and was wandering if anyone could help me out.
>
man sudo

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