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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:49:15 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        Todd Backman <todd@wank.necropolis.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: passwd 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907202346300.361-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907191452540.26046-100000@wank.necropolis.org>

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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Todd Backman wrote:

> 
> Is there any way to hack FreeBSD's passwd utility to dis-allow root from

root has UID equal to 0. once it happened you can do whatever you want.

> changing toor's passwd? I have approx. 15 boxen for external customers
> that I would like to passwd 'toor' so our NOC people do not have to know
> root for each customer. Customers can have thier own root passwd and the
> NOC folk can have 'toor' for reboots and such. We *do not* want root to be

just enable sudo for them. well, root is still able to change their 
passwords. but they are _restricted_ !

(not sudo for toor :-), just sudo for regular user with 
UID different from 0)

> able to change toor's passwd... 
> 
> Any input?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Todd
> 
> 
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