Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS? Message-ID: <16614@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 2 Jun 89 03:08:21 GMT References: <19812@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano TX Lines: 17 In article <19812@adm.BRL.MIL> niuvax!sys1@antares.mcs.anl.gov (Systems Programmer) writes: > I take care of five computers running three operating systems and >only one is UNIX (this one :-). It would be a big help to me if client >departments could take care of the routine stuff, provided they had no >way to add privileged users, i.e. nobody added to certain groups like >staff, wheel, operator, and nobody added with certain uid numbers. This can be done. The facilities are all present. All that is needed is for a systems programmer to write a SUID root program which checks for group membership in some admin group. You wouldn't happen to know where we could find a systems programmer? ;-) -- John F. Haugh II +-Button of the Week Club:------------- VoiceNet: (512) 832-8832 Data: -8835 | "AIX is a three letter word, InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Cactus.Org | and it's BLUE." UucpNet : !bigtex!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------