From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 6 23:34:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD3816A401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:34:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrieng@cbc.ca) Received: from mail02.nm.cbc.ca (mail02.nm.cbc.ca [159.33.1.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA2713C49D for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:34:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrieng@cbc.ca) Received: from hub.cbc.ca (hub.nm.cbc.ca [192.168.1.119]) by mail02.nm.cbc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C730E27748A for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:16:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost.cbc.ca [127.0.0.1]) by hub.cbc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2B46A459 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:16:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from hub.cbc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hub.cbc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01376-02-20 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:16:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from izanagi.local (hub.cbc.ca [159.33.1.155]) by hub.cbc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED416A458 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:16:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45C90C61.3080503@cbc.ca> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:16:49 -0500 From: Gabriel O'Brien User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Macintosh/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45C8FC17.8000206@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: <45C8FC17.8000206@calarts.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.cbc.ca Subject: Re: Special User Account Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:34:22 -0000 You want /usr/ports/security/sudo :) It can do (the equivalent of) all that and much more. cheers, Gabriel -- Gabriel O'Brien IT Analyst, CBC Technology w: 416-205-8740 m: 416-576-0088 Sean Murphy wrote: > I would like to setup a FreeBSD user account that has specific rights to > certain files. This "special user" should not be able to login or ssh > in. Certain other user accounts must first login as them and then use > "su" into the special account (to become that special user) thus gaining > access to specific files. This is a situation where a group or group > permissions will not help this problem. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"