D_AGC%vaxa.nerc-keyworth.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (11/14/88)
In digest V6#012 "Snoopy T. Beagle" <snoopy@sopwith.uucp> responded to a previous submission from eirik@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Eirik Fuller) which has yet to reach me in the UK. The discussion appears to be about providing a system administration environment of some description and reminds me that I'm looking for one or more utilities which could be used to provide a limited and well controlled system administration environment for a generic unix system. The intention is that these could be used by a designated user (or users) to create (maybe delete) user accounts, initiate file-sys saves and restores, and other system admin type stuff without requiring that anyone log on as superuser because (where necessary) the software would setuid superuser. The sys admin environment would be used by a trusted user of the system who would need to be both protected from the system and from whom the system would need to be protected. It would not have to be all embracing, merely to cover the more common requirements, such as those just mentioned, as anything more demanding would be done by a member of the computer services staff. Can anybody point me to a source of such a collection of software ? Public domain source is acceptable, as it would be nice to have the same environment on a number of different vendors' systems, but commercial packages are also of interest. Many thanks to those who respond. Alan Cox, Natural Environment Research Council, UK P.S. In view of the fact that not all of Unix-Wizards seems to make it to my mailbox, direct replies, rather than to the list, seem advisable. P.P.S. If there is a more appropriate forum for this query please let me know of it. d_agc@uk.ac.nkw.va JANET d_agc@va.nkw.ac.uk rest of the world, or d_agc%va.nkw.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk ARPA d_agc%uk.ac.nkw.va@ukacrl EARN/BITNET/NETNORTH star::"d_agc%va.nkw.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk" SPAN