>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:31:18 +0100 (BST)
>From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
>To: Exim User's Mailing List <exim-users@???>
>Subject: Re: [exim] Exim overparanoid about non-root users.
...
>> Which begs the question: What would be the point of ever making
>> anyone a member of the "exim" group when they're not trusted with
>> root privs?
>
>This is to some extent a social question, not a technical one. You
>might not want to give your operators root privilege, but you
>might trust them not to abuse their exim group privilege. For
>instance. Possibly even for legal reasons (minimizing private
>information they can see).
Quite. This is moving away from a discussion about exim. Those
who wish to allow specific users a set of "limited" root privileges
might like to look at:
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
The above software comes as standard with OpenBSD and may be
supplied with other versions of Unix.
