Thanks for all of the useful information about sudo. It works pretty much like I hoped. I'll have to spend a little time studying it and then configuring it so that various users can do various tasks. The example of restarting apache was excellent and it got me thinking about how nice it would be to have a group of users with permission to do that kind of thing. You can really improve service uptime that way, but you have to be able to trust the users not to do bad things. Mike