user permissions.

duncan (sadc) duncan at sadc.info
Wed Dec 10 07:50:03 UTC 2008


> check sudoersls -l /usr/sbin/useradd -- see the permission like user and
> group
> cat /etc/group -- see users in which group
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>> Madan Thapa wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Rohit khaladkar
>> > <rohit.khaladkar at gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi All!
>> >> Just wanted to know if there is a way to find out if the logged in 
>> >> user
>> has
>> >> the permission to create a new user in Red hat linux.  I guess one way
>> >> would
>> >> be to check in the sudoers file.
>> >>
>> >> Please let me know if anyone has any other ideas.
>> >
>> > chmod 750 /usr/sbin/useradd
>> >
>> Which would work if the logged-in user has root among their groups. If 
>> not,
>> no.
>>
>>
 i also have almost the same problem. Can someone verify if these group 
entries are correct . Took them from /etc/group
root : x : 0 : root
bin : x : 1 : root,bin,daemon
sys : x : 3 : root,bin,adm
adm : x : 4 : root,adm,daemon 




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