From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 15:22:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hauan.org (dah.sharedcomm.net [205.235.129.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF31737B400 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:21:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from hauan.org (localhost.hauan.org [127.0.0.1]) by hauan.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1FFUGT31286 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:31:19 GMT (envelope-from dah@hauan.org) Message-ID: <3C6D2987.CE647138@hauan.org> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:30:15 +0000 From: Dave X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: users References: <14040468530.20020215231905@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> 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 sudo in the ports will allow you to let a user do specific tasks as root. Once installed exec visudo and follow the comments. dave Alex wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message