Hello, It's the new guy again, first I have to admit I can use Linux like a man who can drive a car but gets into a tank...so it's all in theory, I jus don't know where all the switches and pedals are yet...no what that is out of the way and I have notified everyone that I don't know jack I might get a reply that I can comprehend :) Okay I've (well I think I have) secured my Linux box...with SuSE harden, a few FAQs on disabling services, changing permissions and general stuff....now I want to create a user that has ROOT ablites with out the ROOT name. Sounds Easy, I thought it was but NOPE, none of them work entirely right, kind of like a co-worker of mine ;p Anyway that's my issue. Thanks from A NEWBIE, Aaron, L. Johnson
Indeed, YaST doesn't seem to allow it. What you can do is add a new user through YaST. Then edit the file /etc/passwd. normally the last line looks something like this: newroot:x:500:100::/home/newroot:/bin/bash Just change the 500 (user id) to 0 and the 100 (group id) also. Then save /etc/passwd Another job well done ... :)
From A_Johnson-SuseML-e to suse-linux-e@suse.com and suse-linux-e@suse.com...:
Hello,
It's the new guy again, first I have to admit I can use Linux like a man who can drive a car but gets into a tank...so it's all in theory, I jus don't know where all the switches and pedals are yet...no what that is out of the way and I have notified everyone that I don't know jack I might get a reply that I can comprehend :)
Okay I've (well I think I have) secured my Linux box...with SuSE harden, a few FAQs on disabling services, changing permissions and general stuff....now I want to create a user that has ROOT ablites with out the ROOT name. Sounds Easy, I thought it was but NOPE, none of them work entirely right, kind of like a co-worker of mine ;p Anyway that's my issue.
Thanks from A NEWBIE,
Aaron, L. Johnson
-- dieter
* A_Johnson-SuseML-e <lj_suse_ml@hotmail.com> [010531 20:39]:
Hello,
few FAQs on disabling services, changing permissions and general stuff....now I want to create a user that has ROOT ablites with out the ROOT name. Sounds Easy, I thought it was but NOPE, none of them work entirely right, kind of like a co-worker of mine ;p Anyway that's my issue.
use "sudo " man sudo will explain you everything and once you set it you can just log in as a normal user and then by issuing the sudo /path/whatever/command you can achieve what you want AFAIK -- Togan Muftuoglu
sudo is by far the best solution for what you want. It is includes good tracking of what is being done as root. alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Togan Muftuoglu" <toganm@users.sourceforge.net> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] root HELP | * A_Johnson-SuseML-e <lj_suse_ml@hotmail.com> [010531 20:39]: | > Hello, | > | > few FAQs on disabling services, changing permissions and general | > stuff....now I want to create a user that has ROOT ablites with out the ROOT | > name. Sounds Easy, I thought it was but NOPE, none of them work entirely | > right, kind of like a co-worker of mine ;p Anyway that's my issue. | > | | use "sudo " man sudo will explain you everything and once you set it | you can just log in as a normal user and then by issuing the sudo | /path/whatever/command you can achieve what you want AFAIK | | -- | Togan Muftuoglu | | | -- | To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com | For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com | Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the | archives at http://lists.suse.com | |
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