On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:46:50AM -0800, Alan Maciel wrote: > I need 3 user accounts, one needed for the production site, the other for the support department > so the users logins will be: > > 'production' and 'support' > > I created with adduser <name> > and I set them the password with passwd <name> > > I need this users accounts with root privileges, so I think that if I give the root password to this users they can use the 'su' command to do all their admin tasks, but how do I prevent this users so they don't log in as 'root' in the login screen directly only with the 'su' command? >
Hi Alan - you need to use the "sudo' command which allows regular users to have root privileges to get needed work done. At the same time it prevents them from logging in as root. "man sudo" has a little info, "man 5 sudoers" has much more and includes examples of how to set up the "sudoers" file which regulates who can do what. It includes an example of how to set up a person to do anything they want, they just have to authenticate themselves first. By the way, could you please post your email in plain text, wrapped to 72 chars wide? Its the preffered format for all RedHat email lists. As you can see from the above your email comes through kinda garbled in some non-MIME readers. To see how to set up out look to not send MIME etc.. see this document: http://expita.com/nomime.html Please go see the RedHat Install list user's guide to learn how to use this list. Its located at: http://www.rps2.net/rhil-guide.htm OR http://kinz.org/rhilg.html Most of what is said there applies to all the RedHat email lists. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
