This didn't work. I set it up. When I run the 'w' command, all I get
is myself logged in, instead of getting all the users who are idle.
When I do a 'ps -ef' all I get is my running processes. I should be
getting all the processes of the running system.



On Mar 27, 6:30*pm, Pat Welch <pat...@inreach.com> wrote:
> andrewm...@gmail.com wrote:
> > The asroot utility is setup. *But its not working for the right
> > people.
>
> > On Mar 27, 11:37 am, ThreeStar <s...@3starsoftware.com> wrote:
> >> On Mar 27, 6:44 am, "andrewm...@gmail.com" <andrewm...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> I seem to be having some trouble with OpenServer 5.0.6. *I need to be
> >>> able to give permission to other users to do various tasks on the
> >>> system, such as kill users and add and remove users and printers. *I
> >>> set them up in the tcb and copied the kill command to their home dir.
> >>> When they go to hit 'w' for the who command, it only shows them as
> >>> logged in. *I'm not sure why. *Could you please help?
> >> I can't tell from your description what you're doing. *Are you trying
> >> to set up the "asroot" utility?
>
> >> --RLR
>
> Here's my handy dandy asroot cookbook - see if you missed some steps:
>
> 1) If you have special purpose logins to do things requiring root
> permissions, make the special logins ".profile" read something like:
>
> :
> exec /tcb/bin/asroot <program name>
>
> Note you should put any commands in a shell script so asroot can execute
> it with root perms, and you can add sanity tests to prevent things like
> rm -r * while in / ).
>
> 2) Create a symbolic link from the script/command to the dir
> "/tcb/files/rootcmds", like (if you make a kill script called "kill_it"):
>
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/kill_it */tcb/files/rootcmds
>
> 3) Add the script name to the file "/etc/auth/system/authorize" at the
> root line, like:
>
> root:shutdown,kill_it
>
> 4) Give the users root auth via scoadmin:
>
> scoadmin > account manager, select user then: Users > Authorizations
>
> add root and the special scripts like "kill_it' to the users that will
> use the scripts.
>
> I also found the man docs on asroot clear as mud when I first
> encountered it after switching to SCO from AT&T Unix back in the early 90's.
>
> The above cookbook took me more hours of WTF's and other colorful
> phrases one afternoon than I would care to admit to.
>
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