From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 17 7:44:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3065037B440 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 07:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by proxy.centtech.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) id JAA19182; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:44:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from sprint.centtech.com(10.177.173.31) by proxy.centtech.com via smap (V2.0/2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma019180; Tue, 17 Apr 01 09:44:32 -0500 Received: from centtech.com (shiva [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08540; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:44:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3ADC56CF.D3498E5@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:44:31 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lloyd@li5.org Cc: "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Add/Remove Users References: <200104171545.f3HFjKq76155@mail.wsufftrust.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You should check out the man page for sudo, since you can set the NOPASSWD option to not ask for passwords.. Lloyd Palfrey wrote: > > I need to create a user just for adding and removing users, I can't use the existing root or sudo. I can't use sudo > because sudo asks for the current users password, and not root because i would have to change the shell to > program which would render the root account unusable. Basicly I need to create another root acount with > remote access. Could you please advise me on a way of doing this, as security plays a massive job on this > server. > > Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com Centaur Technology (512) 418-5792 Never have so many understood so little about so much. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message