From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 25 23:21:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 762D616B6B3 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 23:21:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from muse2.calarts.edu (muse2.calarts.edu [198.182.157.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F8243D53 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 23:21:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from [198.182.157.171] (not-in-use.calarts.edu [198.182.157.171] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by muse2.calarts.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k4PNLrOT063838 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 16:21:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Message-ID: <44763C47.8020706@calarts.edu> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:22:47 -0700 From: Sean Murphy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 198.182.157.28 Subject: SUDO Help password change deligation 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: Thu, 25 May 2006 23:21:55 -0000 I would like to not give root access but enable a user account (not in wheel) to change user passwords with passwd username command. I just would like to delegate the password changing ability to someone else but not give them super user privileges other then passwd. Would this be something sudo can do? can you restrict what accounts passwords they can change for instance everyone but system root and my account?