Yes, that's what he wants to do:
Allow a certain user (call him "fred") to CREATE USER ACCOUNTS,
but deny fred the ability to, say, write to the /usr/bin tree.
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| To add extra users on to your system, there are numerous programs that are
| simple to use, adduser from the command line (my fav) "adduser foo" and then type
| "passwd foo" and give the pass at the prompt. Or you can use linuxconfig,
| DrakConfig, or kuser, to add users. Just run one of those programs as root,
| and fill, in the relavent info, login + pass is usually all you need.
|
| Sudo is an entirely different beast. It allows you to give certain root
| privaledges to a specific user. You might give a certain user special
| privledge to extract source into /usr/local/src. When ever I download a new
| program as source, I extract the files into that directory, which gives me a
| good idea of what I've installed myself or have tried to and failed. Instead
| of making the directory world writable or playing with the group settings, i
| would just need to run something like kpackage with the command sudo preceding
| it. If you really want sudo, it's at www.courtsesan.com/sudo. Just know it's
| probably a security risk and you should read all the documentation on the web
| page and that comes with it. You probably don't need it.
|
| Tom
|
| On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > i want do enable a user to create other user accounts and set their
| > password.
| > But i don't want to give this user the root access !!
| >
| > i assume i have to do that with sudo. But i can't find the appropriate
| > man-page and files in /etc
| > i have installed Power-Linux 6.5.
| >
| > do i have to install a additional package ?
| >
| > can someone help me to get this thing working ?
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