On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Arun Sharma saw fit to inform LI that:
>
>>> Pls tell me how to create a user having only one privilege of 'creating
>>> users' in linux .
>
>>No such thing exists for Linux AFAIK. Some commercial Unices have such
>>fine grained privilege system.
>
>Just a kludge - could a user be created with a restricted shell ... said
>shell automatically running a frontend to the adduser script when the user
>logs in. Or use a web based cgi script to add users, with password
>protection.
>
>Several free telnet boxen have this sort of system (but again, they are
>BSD (hobbiton.org) or SunOS (freenet.nether.net). Dunno about Linux
>boxen having this.
>
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Or how about changing ownership of adduser to said user in a restricted shell?
The web based script is a good idea.
Devdas Bhagat
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