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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:38:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      <up@3.am>
To:        Mark Cohen <logos@csf.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Activate Expired Account
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990820233749.13079B-100000@richard2.pil.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990820192457.00a9f280@javalina.csf.edu>

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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Mark Cohen wrote:

> What would be a secure, yet practical way to allow a non-superuser account 
> have the priviledge to unexpire/activate user accounts.

sudo

It comes with the distribution.

> Basically, I would like to be able to pre-setup accounts and have them 
> created as either expired or de-active by default; and then have them be 
> activated by someone else, yet not give any additional privs than 
> necessary.  Also, the idea is to make this as automated as possible. So how 
> to create such a script that only one other user could run would be ideal.
> 
> Thanks for any info on this matter. As I am not a subscriber as yet (still 
> seeing if FreeBSD is the way to go for my situation), please send to me 
> personally as well as to this list (if you believe this would be valuable 
> for anyone else).
> 
> Thanks much,
> Mark
> logos@csf.edu
> 
> 
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James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am							    http://3.am
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