The specific reason I want to do this is for a git repository in /etc (/etc/.git). I'd like me and the main system administrator to be able to make commits to that repo, so we can keep track of changes on the server. I realized after getting Yaron's response that when using sudo to make commits, my user.name and user.email properties are used for the commit log (and not root's). That's a good thing -- what I want. We want to be able to keep track of who's making what changes. If anyone has any suggestions on a better way to do this, I'm all ears. This is my first time doing version control on /etc. I'd be interested in hearing what others' thoughts are. -Erik On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > I'd just set up a user "adm" if you don't already have one and leave that password as something random instead. That way you're at least psuedo-jailed. > > > On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Erik Mitchell wrote: > >> I can see how that would be bad... I'll consider a different approach. Thanks! >> >> -Erik >> >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >>> >>>> How do I make it so that if a user creates a new file in the >>>> directory, the owner of the file is root and not that user? >>> >>> You do NOT want to let users create files owned by other users, >>> ESPECIALLY not root. >>> >>> -Yaron >>> >>> -- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer >> erik.mitchell at gmail.com >> erik at ekmitchell.com >> http://ekmitchell.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer erik.mitchell at gmail.com erik at ekmitchell.com http://ekmitchell.com/