[K12OSN] Adding and removing users without being in root
Doug Simpson
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Wed Oct 27 04:43:16 UTC 2004
webmin.com
It won't work on FC1 and higher, though to add users. . .
You can try it but it will probably fail. I have turned it in to bugtraq
and hopefully a fix is in the works. . .
Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, John P. Conlon wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >Quoting norbert <bear2bar at netscape.net>:
> >
> >
> >
> >>microman at cmosnetworks.com wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>>
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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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