On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:00:09 Hendrix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a method of giving a user a certain administrative priviledge
> without having to give them "root" priviledges... For example, NT and
> Novell offers certain priviledges for people to be able to handle
> specific tasks (like backups, printer etc..)... How can this be done
> with Linux, without giving the user "root" access...???
First, search freshmeat for 'sudo'. This will probably help a lot.
Then, if you want to do it manually, create an entry in /etc/group:
admin:x:123:tom,dick,harry
and change the ownership on certain files to root.admin. It depends
on the service to find out what permissions to change.
> Thanks,
> Hendrix...
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