From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 18:14:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB46237B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pacific.boldfish.com (mail.boldfish.com [65.206.203.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0E743E75 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@boldfish.com) Received: from hat-trick.boldfish.com (hat-trick.boldfish.com [192.168.0.10]) by pacific.boldfish.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9B1EoU08142 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:14:50 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dave Young To: Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ? Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:14:50 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021010003307.C41584-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <200210102101.52099.stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <200210102101.52099.stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210101814.50555.dave@boldfish.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG maybe I'm missing something, but isn't sudo what you'd want here? newer=20 versions of sudo support -s which gives the person a root shell. Before t= here=20 was support for -s, the command I would let people run would be=20 /bin/some_shell. If someone hammered something I would look to see who us= ed=20 sudo last... it's not definitive because I don't use accounting, but it g= ave=20 me an idea on whom to go talk too... the only part that doesn't jive with sudo would be: > > > Hi! I have been asked to create admin accounts for a machine such > > > that all of them can access that machine as root but with > > > different username and password. well, that really depends on what is meant... anyhoo, I'll shut up now ;) --Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message