03-15-2019
Some idea that flashed through my mind: If there are several (admin?) tasks that you'd like to offer to several users that have to be done in terminal: why not create a (restricted) shell with a small menu script offering the tasks? You could centralize common code into functions, run certain code snippets with elevated privileges, and so on...
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