10-24-2014
Hi,
I suggest not to do that.. you can use rbac(for AIX 6.1), create your roles and assing roles to other users. They have same authotity as root and it's safer thinking in security stuff.
Suppose you create a role myadminrole and assigned to a user israel, so log
1- log on as israel
2- swrole myadminrole
and do what ever you want.
This user can change the root password without any issues.
Hopes this helps
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
setuidgid
setuidgid(8) System Manager's Manual setuidgid(8)
NAME
setuidgid - runs another program under a specified account's uid and gid.
SYNOPSIS
setuidgid account child
DESCRIPTION
account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments.
setuidgid sets its uid and gid to account's uid and gid, removing all supplementary groups. It then runs child.
setuidgid cannot be run by anyone other than root.
EXIT CODES
setuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it cannot setgid, if it cannot setuid, or if it cannot run child.
Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.
SEE ALSO
supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscanboot(8), svscan(8), readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8),
tai64nlocal(8), envuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8)
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