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Old 11-19-2007
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sudo looks like the tool for you (or RBAC if HPUX supports it).

BTW, I would suggest that you don't set world permisions If you absolutely must give world permissions (and there's hardly ever a good time to do this), the sticky bit to protect the files within it.