From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 1: 1:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 330B5150C2 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:01:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA26918; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:01:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:01:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: "T. William Wells" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to watch the root user? In-Reply-To: <7muhbs$hdn$1@twwells.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, T. William Wells wrote: > In article , > Vincent Poy wrote: > : Speaking about root or limited root, does anyone happen to know > : how to give like a account with limited root priviliges such as add/delete > : users and changing a users password via a shell that calls up a shell > : script but without full access as root. > > Check the security section of ports or packages. Ah, sudo or super. But would they need to login as themself then need another password sort of like su before they get the privileges or is there a way so they can default login and it has only those commands? Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message