debian first user created

[Mecca2]

Hi there,
Im not entirely sure of how to ask this. But when you first install debian the first user created is a "special" user, all system mail (from cron and mysql, etc) is sent to this user and prolly a few other bits and pieces.
I deleted the first user i created ages ago, and was wondering if i can have my current user have the same privelidges, i think he could invoke wvdial as well without su'ing to root, ??? is there a debian script that performs this on a user ?

sorry for the lack of a decisive question

[aliov]

If understand correctly you want to dial up without the root password, suppose this is for a user called bob, go to /etc and there is a file there called sudoers add the following:

bob ALL = NOPASSWD:/sbin/wvdial

and after you can run the command by sudo wvdial.


another possible solution is to change the group owner of that command.

chown root:users wvdial ,where users is a common group that you have to yourself to it (by default this is done unless you made it manually )
you can check by, groups bob

Hope this help

[IsaacKuo]

By default Debian doesn't do anything at all with the first user in the sudo'ers file. The only user referenced in sudo'ers out-of-box is root.

I'd guess that anything to do with wvdial has to do with groups. The wvdial executable probably has permissions something like 750 (owner has full access, group has read/execute access, others have no access).