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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:02:38 +0000
From:      Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
To:        zzerver@hotmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: hi ...a question ...
Message-ID:  <20040212070238.GA48712@draenor.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV49jdAwrRnPB00018536@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY2-DAV49jdAwrRnPB00018536@hotmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:04:42PM -0800, zzerver@hotmail.com wrote:
> Am running a free server of shells in freeBSD 4.9, the amount of
> people solicitading new accounts has been too much that i can not
> handle them by me, so i wrote this .sh program to do it for me, my
> code its secure as much i can tell, i understand the risk involve and
> decide to do it anyways, soo i create a new group call 'shellauto',
> add new user 'newuser' promote to 'wheel', then i modify etc/shells to
> accept my new shell, so when some body logs to my server as 'newuser'
> the server run my .sh (freeshell.sh), everything works goodl but my
> question is ...how can i give my script root previlages ? so can
> addusers without me? also if there is a way to type a command directly
> to shell (bash) so i can define quotas of 1mb, and background procees
> to 3?? that way i can include those commands to my freeshell.sh
> ...thanks!

Firstly, you're addressing the wrong forum.  In future, you should mail
these questions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

That said, I would suggest using something like sudo
(/usr/ports/security/sudo) to give your program root access for specific
programs.  

Cheers,
Marc



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