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To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>,
	Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: removing login rights from non-overseers 
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From: Angela Marie Thomas <angela@foam.wonderslug.com>
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> Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com> writes:
> 
> > Sudo is a lot simpler but does mean many people still retain complete
> > and interactive shell access.
> 
> sudo permits restricting which commands can be executed.  I don't know
> whether we can realistically use that, though.
> 
> Ian

Would you set it up unpassworded for certain people for certain operations?
Not everyone does, or should, have a real password on the machine.

--Angela