Re: Reg, User rights

2007-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
Dear Team, This is subburaman from Bangalore, india.I have installed the FreeBSD6.2.Now i want to create a new User with Administrator rights.Please give me the guidelines for me. You can do one of four things. Create a user as per normal. Then, also add that userid to the

Re: Reg, User rights

2007-02-22 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Create a user as per normal. Then, also add that userid to the wheel group. (Don't make wheel the user's primary group. Use a regular group for that. Just add their id in the /etc/group file to wheel. I prefer to use pw groupmod -m username I believe that is the official way to do

Re: Reg, User rights

2007-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:33:50PM -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Feb 22, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Install and set up sudo (/usr/ports/security/sudo) and create a configuration for that user so they can run specific commands that you specify and only those commands.

Re: Reg, User rights

2007-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 22, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Install and set up sudo (/usr/ports/security/sudo) and create a configuration for that user so they can run specific commands that you specify and only those commands. This is a very good method, but sometimes it takes some careful

RE: Reg, User rights

2007-02-21 Thread tanniru.sankar
Hi, While creating user accout using 'adduser' command, give 'Login group' as 'wheel' which will give administrator rights for that particular username. Regards. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of subbu ramanN Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Reg, User rights

2007-02-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: Reg, User rights Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:30:10 +0530 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, While creating user accout using 'adduser' command, give 'Login group' as 'wheel' which will give administrator rights for that particular username