CaclMgr(TM) is a tool to let administrators/users have a easy way to grant/ check/revoke their priviledges be used by others when execute prespecified commands. By using caclMgr package, the chance to need to develop new setuid programs or have to turn on setuid bit on existing commands are greately reduced. Compared with other packages like sudo, caclMgr is more multi-user friendly and every user has his/her own database so that there is no need every time to log on as root to update the database. With every command in caclMgr package only does single task and maintained as simple as possible, there is much less risks to have bugs when compared with the becoming more and more complicated sudo. To install, as root, run following command: gzip -c -d caclMgr-V.Linux.cpio.gz|cpio -idv if you are using Linux; or cpio -idv < caclMgr-V.`uname -s`.cpio if you are using AIX, Solaris, SCO OpenServer or HP-UX. then cp caclMgr.lic /etc/caclMgr.lic For how to use caclMgr package, read /usr/local/secbin/caclMgr.UserGuide. Author: GONG Wei Zhong Email: wzis@hotvoice.com HTTP: //members.tripod.com/~wzce