[K12OSN] Adding and removing users without being in root
John P. Conlon
jconlon1 at elp.rr.com
Wed Oct 27 01:28:19 UTC 2004
Is WEBMIN in the K12LTSP or do I need to go look for it some place? I'm
not the most savy Linux person so a little bit more detailed response
would help.
Thanks again
Pat
Jim Hays wrote:
>Webmin is definitely the answer to this.
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>Quoting norbert <bear2bar at netscape.net>:
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>>microman at cmosnetworks.com wrote:
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>>>John P. Conlon wrote:
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>>>>I have a teacher who has three stand alone machines running K12LTSP
>>>>4.2. I want to know if I can give her access to the add-remove users
>>>>GUI with out giving her access to root or the root password. If I
>>>>can do this can someone please enlighten me on how to go about it.
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Pat
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>>>You might wish to consider the use of sudo for this. However, this
>>>may end up giving her the ability to create her own username with a
>>>UID of 0, which would give her root.
>>>
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>>Hi John,
>>
>>You might try installing WEBMIN and creating a limited administrator
>>account with user priviledges.....
>>
>>norbert
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