RE: another user admin

2001-11-23 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/23/2001 06:38 AM -0600, you wrote: >On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 00:15, Travis McCarter wrote: > > If you want another user to have full root privelages, you can edit the > > /etc/passwd file and manually create a user with the UID of '0'. This > will > > in fact make another user a root user. >

RE: another user admin

2001-11-23 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 00:15, Travis McCarter wrote: > If you want another user to have full root privelages, you can edit the > /etc/passwd file and manually create a user with the UID of '0'. This will > in fact make another user a root user. IMHO, that's a poor solution and is setting you up

RE: another user admin

2001-11-22 Thread Travis McCarter
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:16 PM To: Redhat-List@Redhat. Com Subject: another user admin how can an user other than root can be given permissions for account creation, deletion, passwor

Re: another user admin

2001-11-22 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 November 2001 06:59 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I've seen the sudo command mentioned before. I don't know whether it is > just a peculiarity of my 7.2 install, or whether it is a part of a > package that I don't have installed, but I don

Re: another user admin

2001-11-22 Thread Ian Truelsen
Timo Hietanen writes: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> how can an user other than root can be given permissions >> for account creation, deletion, password changing, etc. >> >> error for a normal user: >> >> chpasswd: can't lock password file >> >> err... newbie question

Re: another user admin

2001-11-22 Thread Timo Hietanen
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how can an user other than root can be given permissions > for account creation, deletion, password changing, etc. > > error for a normal user: > > chpasswd: can't lock password file > > err... newbie question ?? sudo would IMHO be the best choice.

another user admin

2001-11-22 Thread rupendralist
how can an user other than root can be given permissions for account creation, deletion, password changing, etc. error for a normal user: chpasswd: can't lock password file err... newbie question ?? - Rupendra Singh Stu