From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 1:26:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B1737B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 01:25:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f119Pvh29878 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:25:57 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:25:56 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: About delegating account creation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message