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Title: Setting Up Administrator Users from Command Line
Post by: James Phillips on May 31, 2002, 11:47:44 AM

Hi,

I was wondering how I can set up from the Command Line another Administrator?

James

Title: Re: Setting Up Administrator Users from Command Line
Post by: guestHH on May 31, 2002, 12:24:41 PM

Hi James,

Start here..: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=13759.msg52363#msg52363

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: Setting Up Administrator Users from Command Line
Post by: James Phillips on May 31, 2002, 01:03:16 PM

I tried the help that you gave me with the visudo and I do not understand how I can make more enteries to the file.

James

Title: Re: Setting Up Administrator Users from Command Line
Post by: stephen noble on May 31, 2002, 08:29:09 PM

generally http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi

specifically
User Shell Access
4.1.x
How to grant users shell access to the e-smith server
http://www.dungog.net/sme/howto/usershell.html

Alternately
daniel van raay has a contrib rpm that optionally gives sudo access in addition.
sudo gives a user root privileges by prefixing the command with sudo
eg. sudo tail /var/log/messages

From
http://www.dungog.net/sme/download.html