Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 10:06:35 -0500 From: "Chris Johnson" <cjohnson@palomine.net> To: Cobra Networking <nitehawk@cobra.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Users Privlages Message-ID: <199902061506.HAA17571@hub.freebsd.org>
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> 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
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