From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 8:23:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turing.csis.gvsu.edu (csis.gvsu.edu [148.61.162.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC3A437C13C for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 08:23:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@csis.gvsu.edu) Received: (qmail 31451 invoked by uid 0); 3 Apr 2000 15:23:44 -0000 Received: from pm489-28.dialip.mich.net (HELO badmofo) (198.110.188.38) by csis.gvsu.edu with SMTP; 3 Apr 2000 15:23:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 4937 invoked by uid 500); 3 Apr 2000 15:14:31 -0000 From: matt@csis.gvsu.edu Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:14:31 -0400 To: Benedict H Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: superuser Message-ID: <20000403111431.A4895@badmofo> References: <200004012214220200.0074F6ED@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200004012214220200.0074F6ED@smtp.mail.yahoo.com>; from hbenedict_fbsd@yahoo.com on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:14:22PM +0700 X-my-OS-is-better-than-your-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It took Benedict H 17 lines to say: > currently I use FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on my machine and I have problem > in creating a non-root user that can have privilege of superuser > (specifically to run adduser) Non-root users having access to adduser implies being able to add users with UID 0. Write your own wrapper for adduser that does some basic checks. Install sudo (/usr/ports/security/sudo) so trusted users can execute your wrapper program. -- matt@csis.gvsu.edu http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/matt 03 F8 23 C5 43 A2 F7 5A 24 49 F7 B0 3A F9 B1 7F The future masters of technology must be lighthearted and intelligent. Machines easily master the grim and the dumb - Marshal Mcluhan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message