On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:51:00AM -0500, Paul Keating wrote:
> Sounds like you might want something like Powerbroker.
>  
> Rather than everyone having "root", each person logs in as themselves, and 
> executes a powerbroker script that gives them the access rights they need (if 
> that is "root", then so be it.)
> Everything gets logged on the powerbroker server, and only one person needs 
> root.
>  

also see "sudo" from the open source world.