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Date:      Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:50:30 +0200
From:      Zenny <garbytrash@gmail.com>
To:        Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Restricting users from certain privileges
Message-ID:  <CACuV5sCHmnUnXTTY%2BkGqszi-Ynu8Vr3bf%2BLALf=yQbhHPXSdXA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1SO2ER-000K66-8k@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <CACuV5sCyCgn8aBawTEP=BT%2B%2B4Ut4kPt8fXSq%2BgcS2YrkZaU%2BJw@mail.gmail.com> <E1SO2ER-000K66-8k@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>

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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> > Hi:
> >
> > I could not figure out how to restrict users or other users from certain
> > privileges to execute certain commands in FreeBSD/NanoBSD?
> >
> > What I meant is I want to create a NanoBSD image in which there will be
> an
> > additional user, say 'admin'. I need to give this new user (admin) some
> > privileges to run some root-can-only-execute commands, but not all (ACL
> > similar to the firmwares in adsl modems from ISPs).
> >
> > I read Dru Lavingne's 'BSD Hacks' and Joseph Kong's 'Designing BSD
> > Rootkits' besides FreeBSD handbook, but I simply could not figure out.
> > Could anyone throw some light on this? Appreciate it!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > /zenny
>
> try sudo from ports, security/sudo
>
> cheers,
>        danny
>
>
Thanks Daniel, but sudo gives all (not selective) root privileges to the
user (admin in my case). So this is not what I am trying to achieve in my
original post.

/z



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