Re: root group in solaris

This is very kludgy, but may be what your looking for.

slap together an interactive script which opens to a menu of choices.

as example - 1) change users password
                2) Run UFS Level 0 dump on /
                etc...

Then create a userid that is 0, make the password of this user different than
the root user, and ensure that the script you created above is the login shell
(the last parameter of the /etc/passwd entry).

At 02:50 AM 9/18/2006, dubaisans dubai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to give root user privileges to a set of OS
> administrators. Everyone has individual user-ids on the system.
> Currently they login with their personal ID and then SU to root. I
> donot want to share root password with these many people.
>
> I am thinking of adding all these users to the "root" group[GID 0].
> Will it provide root-equivalent UID O access to these users. If not
> why ? Does the "root" group not have root user-id equivalent
> privileges?
>
> Is it possible manually to make the GID 0 privileges equivalant of UID O?
>
> How else can I give these individual users root privileges - make all
> of them UID 0 or something.? Is that a smart idea?
>
> I am looking at something simpler than SUDO or RBAC