From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 20:15:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00849 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:15:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00715 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA29766; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:14:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:14:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Malartre cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP used has a user In-Reply-To: <3567808D.10689465@aei.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 23 May 1998, Malartre wrote: > My little brother want to use FreeBSD. I gived him a user but I have not > gived him the root password. So he cannot use the modem and the PPP term > > How can I change that? I only want him to use PPP and not other user. > And how can I add him to the operator group? I have tryed /etc/group but > it dont work :-/ > > FreeBSD 2.2.5 I'd suggest installing sudo and giving him permission to run /usr/sbin/ppp only. sudo can grant root access for certain programs only. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message