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I am new to linux and would like to allow a user to use SUDO to change password and also delete/add members to a group without signing in as root ...
- 01-16-2011 #1Just Joined!
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How do I allow users access to certin commands in visudo?
I am new to linux and would like to allow a user to use SUDO to change password and also delete/add members to a group without signing in as root or using SUDO. I think you do this in visudo but I dont know the commands to do this.
Any help?
ThanksLast edited by nextgen; 01-17-2011 at 03:25 PM.
- 01-17-2011 #2
you can use sudo to restrict users (or a better idea would be groups) to only be able to use certain commands. You can configure it to ask for root's password, the user's password, or no password at all.
I don't know what vistudio is, so I can't help you with that specifically.New to the internet, technical forums, or the hacker / open source community??
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- 01-17-2011 #3Just Joined!
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im sorry. I misspelled that, I ment to say visudo.
Any help?
- 01-19-2011 #4
AH,
visudo is just a front end command to edit your /etc/sudoers configuration file with vim. You can not delete / add members to a group without signing is as root or using sudo.
It's technically possible to allow anyone to change group info, but I'm not going to show someone how to make their system MUCH more insecure (this 1 act would basically remove ANY security your system has if someone gained ANY kind of access.)New to the internet, technical forums, or the hacker / open source community??
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thank you very much


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