On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:33:44PM -0500, Frank Sweetser wrote: fs> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 07:49:18AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: fs> > How do I control "trusted user" to allow regular user accounts access fs> > to things like the mailq command or reviewing system logs? fs> fs> sudo. It can specify which commands which users are allowed to run with fs> elevated privs. For more complex options, such as reading certain logs, fs> you'll probably want to write scripts/programs that do exactly what you want fs> to allow and allow sudo access to them. For log reading, why not just put the logs in a group? -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886