Re: program privileges (was: Filenames in Ada)

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 21:23 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Dave Thompson wrote:


> > What do you mean "real"? There is only one superuser id, or
> > equivalently all system/manager privileges/roles are combined into one
> > userid, which is certainly a limitation that is sometimes a problem.
> > But Unix does (or perhaps Unices do, since there are now a range of
> > them) support multiple "ordinary" users pretty well. If competently
> > administered, which many personal (Linux etc.) systems aren't.
> 


> I permanently have a root console open on my system and when I use a Linux
> system where I don't have the root password I feel like a cripple.

I'd suggest setting up a sudo environment and a file system
convention like the one used in HP-Unix,
/opt/program/{typical unix hierarchy}

This way you can use plain old groups and have kind of superuser
privileges in these areas. (Unless some programs needs system
resources requiring root privileges.)

I'm happy when I don't have to do systems administration all the
time and execute every silly little program configuration as root.
I can otherwise concentrate on the applications.