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Date:      Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:25:56 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   About delegating account creation
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010201102556.mj@isy.liu.se>

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I am root on a server. And as such I can create new accounts. Now if am away can
I delegate account creation to someone else without also giving him/her the
means of creating havoc with the system? 

Would it be enough to include this person into, say, the wheel group? (as the pw
an vipw command are owned by root:wheel). Can I do chmod 660 on
/etc/master.passwd or is that a bad thing?

How does one do this 'in real life'?

/M
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