From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 14:19:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75AAD37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:19:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GRLHZT00.VGM; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:19:05 +0100 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:19:05 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <14040468530.20020215231905@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: "Don Seeger" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: users In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Don, Friday, February 15, 2002, 9:03:53 PM, you wrote: DS> can another user be set up to use the adduser command besides root DS> If so then how DS> thanks DS> Don I have one solution that will work, and two that may. I hope this is usefull to you. Someone who is in the group wheel can use the command su to become root. (This is a sure thing) It may be posible for a user to do this without su-ing if they belong to the group operators. You have to try this out to be sure. If it is a file then you may be use chmod and chowner to make it happen. -- Best regards, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message