Subject: Re: Why no root login
From: jeff (jeff@univrel.pr.uconn.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 14:25:39 EST
Brian Reid wrote:
>
> I use netatalk in schools. We let students have accounts. Students
> graduate. I've always wanted root login so that I can make a CD Rom with
> student files on them without needing to know student passwords and without
> logging out and in hundreds of times. There are deep technical reasons
> related to our computing environment why we cannot use group permissions to
> do this.
Try using netatalk with the "admin group" option, which grants a group
of users root access. (This is implemented in the 1.5pre series of
netatalk on sourceforge)
jeff
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