[K12OSN] Adding and removing users without being in root

"Terrell Prudé, Jr." microman at cmosnetworks.com
Tue Oct 26 23:49:09 UTC 2004


John P. Conlon wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

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.

--TP
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