user permissions.

[Madan Thapa]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Madan Thapa <madan.feedback at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Rohit khaladkar <
> rohit.khaladkar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All!
>> Just wanted to know if there is a way to find out if the logged in user
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>> the permission to create a new user in Red hat linux.  I guess one way
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>> be to check in the sudoers file.
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>> Please let me know if anyone has any other ideas.
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> Well,  sudousers is the file to check for.
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In case you want to restrict all except root user from creating accounts,
following should work:

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> chmod 750 /usr/sbin/useradd
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> server5 at server5 [~]# ll /usr/sbin/useradd
> -rwxr-x---  1 root root 56232 Jul 25 11:36 /usr/sbin/useradd*
> server5 at server5 [~]# /usr/sbin/useradd testing
> -bash: /usr/sbin/useradd: Permission denied
> server5 at server5 [~]#
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