Hi Pete,
have a look at thread60-396789 and thread80-283382 where I posted something regarding "sudo".
"sudo" ist a safe way to grant users certain rights. After the installation you have to edit the configuration file /etc/sudoers (which must be edited with the "visudo" command).
The following is a small example of the sudoers file which I also posted earlier.
Here it is specified which users can do "su - fred" without being prompted for freds's password by executing "sudo su - fred".
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
# Host alias specification
Host_Alias YOUR_HOST=mysunserver
# User alias specification
### UNIX_ADMIN: mrjazz
User_Alias UNIX_ADMIN=mrjazzUserID
### FRED_USERS: Ian, Mary, Charles, Mark
User_Alias FRED_USERS=ianUserID,maryUserID,charlesUserID,markUserID
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
UNIX_ADMIN ALL=(ALL) /bin/ksh, /usr/local/bin/sudo, /usr/bin/su -
FRED_USERS YOUR_HOST=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/su - fred
Jamisar: I can logon to remote servers using the public/private key authentication and not the password authentication, but how can you "su" using ssh?
mrjazz
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