From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 14:14:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04816 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04751 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:13:44 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA07258; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:13:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Anthony Yandell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adduser for non-root users In-Reply-To: <00ec01bd696d$cb8fe9c0$114bdacd@cimarron.ilinkusa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Anthony Yandell wrote: > We have to allow certain users within a certain group to add users with > the adduser command. We have been able to accomplish this, but the > passwd database resets the permissions over-night. Is there anyone that > has had success with this sort of thing? We'd really appreciate any > assistance. Thanks in advance. Please reply to antone@ahoc.net One solution is to install sudo and specify that the particular group of users can only execute adduser. Sudo is a limited form of `su'. The passwd file perms are probably reset in /etc/daily, so you could change/disable it there too. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message