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Offline sal1504

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second admin user
« on: March 10, 2010, 05:52:11 PM »
Is there a way to set up a second admin user with all the same rights as the admin user that is established when you install SME? What I want to try to accomplish is to have a "backdoor" to the console with all permissions in case a client messes up the original administrator. Something that won't show up as a user.

Sal

Offline janet

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Re: second admin user
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 09:03:25 PM »
sal1504

If you are referring to GUI access

http://www.dungog.net/wiki/Usermanager

You setup other admins by their name to access https://yourdomain/user-manager but you are the only one who knows the main admin password and therefore the only person who can access http://yourdomain/server-manager

For command line access you can setup other users by name to have ssh access and grant them root user privileges or instruct them to use the su command eg
su -

Installing smeserver-remoteuseraccess (in smecontribs repo but also see dungog.net for more info) may assist management of these additional users.
« Last Edit: March 10, 2010, 09:14:43 PM by mary »
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Offline sal1504

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Re: second admin user
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 10:46:28 PM »
Thanks Mary

I'm not sure this will do what I want but will download it and give it a go.

Sal