Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Which doesn't happen with sudo, since there's only one privileged
>> account.
> 
>   Actually you can create different accounts in unix, which may belong to
> different groups which have different access privileges, and then you can
> use sudo to perform a command with the privileges of any of those accounts
> (not just the root account).
> 
>   (Granted, I don't know if graphical sudos allow you to do this in any
> system, but at least the command-line version does.)

And there's even something called "PolicyKit" that lets you elevate enough 
privileges to execute one particular operation, instead of getting full-
blown root access.

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