Re: Magneto Optical Drives for SGI Workstations

Jessica Dion (jdion@zoo.uvm.edu)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:11:11 -0500 (EST)

You might want to look into using sudo - it's a small unix program
that you should be able to compile on your iris, that allows selected
users to execute selected commands as root. You could configure this so
that users were allowed to execute only the commands mount and umount, or
whatever you thought was necessary. I believe that it normally requires
the user to have root password, but you may be able to configure it so
that the user has to know some other, special sudo password (to avoid
everyone knowing root password).

We use it on our linux machines at home, but I wasn't the one who
installed it, and this is all that I know about it. If you search the web
for sudo and irix, you'll get all kinds of mildly informative hits. Try:

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~millert/sudo/
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/computing/lsn/lsn27/lsn27.html
http://www.nscp.umd.edu/sudo.html

and others. Good luck!
- Jessica Dion
Biochemistry Dept.
University of Vermont