Timo Hietanen writes: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> how can an user other than root can be given permissions >> for account creation, deletion, password changing, etc. >> >> error for a normal user: >> >> chpasswd: can't lock password file >> >> err... newbie question ?? > > sudo would IMHO be the best choice. > > man sudo > man sudoers > man visudo > I've seen the sudo command mentioned before. I don't know whether it is just a peculiarity of my 7.2 install, or whether it is a part of a package that I don't have installed, but I don't have the sudo command on my system and no man entry for it either.
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