ssh and sudo

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:27, Arnaud G <lepelerin2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tx Chris, but what do you mean exactly by centralized authentication? The
> situation here is that I maintaining my converted friends machines (6 at the
> moment but soon a couple more). I made them switch from Vista to Ubuntu. the
> deal we agreed upon is "OK we go with Ubuntu but you maintain the machine".
> Having machine being located remotely how can I have centralized
> authentication. I am ready to try a better solution than mine. I am open to
> any suggestion that would make my life easier.
>

I do this as well (though I don't force them to switch, they come to
me asking!). On every machine I configure an additiona user, "dotan",
that has full privledges. I also configure the root account and X
forwarding. When I need to log in, I log in to "dotan" and if I need
to do something as their user, I do so through root. Thus I never see
their password.

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