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# 8  
Old 11-26-2009
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Originally Posted by solaris_user
root access is only for system administrator and nobody else and that is final
Root login is a bad practice but raising someone's privileges to perform administrative tasks is both correct and unavoidable.
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set ALC entires and permissions instead giving root access
ACL is one way, sudo is another one and RBAC is probably the best one with Solaris. rootsh is a portable wrapper that logs every command run by a user granted root access. Quite a good security compromise.
# 9  
Old 11-27-2009
As you said jigi you have several solutions dor this problem but as I said root account is ONLY FOR SYS ADMIN and for nobody else Smilie
# 10  
Old 11-27-2009
I agree but you misunderstood my replies, perhaps because you do not know what rootsh is. Users whose tasks require full root access are by definition sys admins. Whether they are reliable / skilled or not is a totally different issue.

PS: not sure about why you use that "jigi" nickname but please use jlliagre instead.
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