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Old 05-19-2004
user executing priveleged commands

hey peeps

i am pretty much new to unix, my first semester at uni, so if anyone can help, would be greatly appreciated.

how the hell is it possible for a user to execute priveleged commands without the user having a superuser password??

if anyone can help me, i would appreciate it very much. Links to helpful sites would be appreciated too

cheers

milos
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Old 05-19-2004
normally you need a root password to run priveleged command, but you can also use sudoers, this allow you to run root priveleged command without needing a root password as long as you have been given root priveleged in /etc/sudoer file.

you can issue
sudo -s
then your normal password.

Do a google search on sudoer for more detail
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Old 05-19-2004
MySQL

thanks for your help hassan2
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