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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:50:44 +0300
From:      Igor Robul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About delegating account creation
Message-ID:  <20010201125044.A30521@linux.rainbow>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010201102556.mj@isy.liu.se>; from mj@isy.liu.se on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:25:56AM %2B0100
References:  <XFMail.010201102556.mj@isy.liu.se>

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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:25:56AM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote:
> 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? 
/usr/ports/sysutils/webmin
You can create account which will only can manage users, BUT
if some user can edit password files, then it easy can become root.

-- 
Igor Robul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", 
Sochi, Russia
http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744


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