sudo 1.9.5p2-1
Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or
groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while
logging all commands and arguments.
Sudo operates on a per-command basis.
It
is not a replacement for the shell.
Features include: the ability to restrict
what commands a user may run on a per-host basis, copious logging of each
command (providing a clear audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout
of the sudo command, and the ability to use the same configuration file
(sudoers) on many different machines.
Website: http://www.sudo.ws