On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:44 +0100, Gordon, JC (John) wrote:
> > > 2. Remote management of a service - the ability with appropriate
> > > authorisation to STOP, and START a service without logging on to the
> > > host.
> >
> > What's wrong with SSH?
>
> a) I envisaged people having management rights over a service without
> the complete control of root.
This is not a new problem; sudo / set-uid root scripts are common ways
to solve this problem.
> b) I am told that for some services (eg RB) it is no simple matter to
> get them working so a simple command would be a big step forward whether
> you executed it as root via ssh or directly via an API.
That is an independent problem. The RB control scripts should be fixed,
not wrapped in another layer to workaround the breakage.
Cheers,
David
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David McBride <[log in to unmask]>
Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
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