On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 01:50:00AM +0000, Phing Zhaichaign wrote:
> I would like to know how come when i set 'Superuser Equivalence' under linux
> conf, the user doesn't have superuser equivalence. For example, can't run
> linuxconf, can't change permissions on files owned by root, can't do various
> other things.
super-user equivilance should only pertain to when the user is running
linuxconf, not during normal system use. If the user still can't run
linuxconf, then it's probably an installation error/feature.
In order for linuxconf to give a normal user "super user priveledges", it
must be installed with the setuid bit set, which is a security hole
waiting to happen. So Red Hat probably doesn't install it that way by
default. (thus that feature is broken).
If you want to give a user root priviledges, install the sudo package from
the powertools cd and configure it.
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