On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:58:20PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I need to create an admin type user for the purpose > of maintaining user accounts. > The user needs access to /home directory and everything > below it, but not anything higher in the tree. > (I've heard something about chroot doing this, but haven't > tried it. What's recommended?) > * > What tools are available for setting up this type of account? > I've heard that using SUDO for running types of root commands > is pretty secure. > > Thanks, > -Rick
Just for maintenance reasons you can give full access to /home directory to that user. Just change the group permissions and add that user to the group. If you want to create users as well, then you need SUDO. Mihalis. -- 22:05:06 up 25 days, 3:10, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.01 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
