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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:01:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
To:        "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to watch the root user?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907190100020.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
In-Reply-To: <7muhbs$hdn$1@twwells.com>

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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, T. William Wells wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907182311140.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>,
> Vincent Poy  <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> 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?


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