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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

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