From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 6 07:06:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17579 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shemp.palomine.net (shemp.palomine.net [205.198.88.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA17571 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:06:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjohnson@palomine.net) Message-Id: <199902061506.HAA17571@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 21225 invoked from network); 6 Feb 1999 15:06:34 -0000 Received: from blinky.palomine.net (HELO ?192.168.10.10?) (@206.84.62.38) by shemp.palomine.net with SMTP; 6 Feb 1999 15:06:34 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 10:06:35 -0500 Subject: Re: Users Privlages From: "Chris Johnson" To: Cobra Networking , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello all, > > Im knew to the admin part of FreeBSD and would like to know if > there is a way to give certain users access...like I would like to take on > a couple ppl to help me with my box but dont want them to have the full > super user access Im just looking for something that will allow them to > edit other users on the system files and change passwords for other users. > > I know I can do this by doing su -l userid but thats cause I know su pw ;) > but I dont want them to be super user...is there away for this to be done? Try the sudo port. It'll let you give certain users root privileges for only a particular set of commands that you define. It's in /usr/ports/security/sudo, if you've installed the ports collection. If not, you can download the precompiled package. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message