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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:13:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Anthony Yandell <antone@ahoc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adduser for non-root users
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416141239.7029j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <00ec01bd696d$cb8fe9c0$114bdacd@cimarron.ilinkusa.net>

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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Anthony Yandell wrote:

> We have to allow certain users within a certain group to add users with
> the adduser command. We have been able to accomplish this, but the
> passwd database resets the permissions over-night. Is there anyone that
> has had success with this sort of thing? We'd really appreciate any
> assistance. Thanks in advance. Please reply to antone@ahoc.net

One solution is to install sudo and specify that the particular group of
users can only execute adduser.  Sudo is a limited form of `su'. 

The passwd file perms are probably reset in /etc/daily, so you could
change/disable it there too.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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