From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 20 20:39: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F36BE14BE1 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:38:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from up@pil.net) Received: (qmail 13164 invoked by uid 1825); 21 Aug 1999 03:38:48 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:38:48 -0400 (EDT) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Mark Cohen Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Activate Expired Account In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990820192457.00a9f280@javalina.csf.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Mark Cohen wrote: > What would be a secure, yet practical way to allow a non-superuser account > have the priviledge to unexpire/activate user accounts. sudo It comes with the distribution. > Basically, I would like to be able to pre-setup accounts and have them > created as either expired or de-active by default; and then have them be > activated by someone else, yet not give any additional privs than > necessary. Also, the idea is to make this as automated as possible. So how > to create such a script that only one other user could run would be ideal. > > Thanks for any info on this matter. As I am not a subscriber as yet (still > seeing if FreeBSD is the way to go for my situation), please send to me > personally as well as to this list (if you believe this would be valuable > for anyone else). > > Thanks much, > Mark > logos@csf.edu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= ISPF 3 - The Forum for ISPs by ISPs(tm) || Nov 15-17, 1999, New Orleans 3 days of clues, news, and views from the industry's best and brightest. Visit for information and registration. ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message