On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:44:42 -0600, you wrote: | | >On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:41:34AM -0300, Nicol?s Conde wrote: | >> I'm new to Linux and I'd like to know how (if possible) to create a | >> user with uid != 0 but that can do administrative tasks (add/delete | >> user/groups, change permissions/ownership, run admin scripts such as | >> 'updatedb', etc.). | > | >'sudo' lets you give non-root users the ability to become root for | >certain commands. Its configuration file is /etc/sudoers, described in | >the sudoers(5) man page. If I were you I'd ignore the long and detailed | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man sudoers | No manual entry for sudoers | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man sudo | No manual entry for sudo | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo | bash: sudo: command not found
This means you don't have it installed. $ apt-cache search sudo calife - Provides super user privileges to specific users. dpsyco-sudo - Automate administration of sudo privileges. gnome-sudo - GUI frontend to sudo wajig - Simplified Debian package management front end sudo - Provides limited super user privileges to specific users. 'sudo' is the package you want. # apt-get install sudo (or use dselect if you prefer) -D -- (E)scape (M)eta (A)lt (C)ontrol (S)hift