How to create a user without root privileges

peace18 · 04-09-2011, 12:40 AM

Hello,

I create a user in CentOS 5.5 for using with my email account.

useradd ralf
passwd ralf

I want to use "ralf user" only for my email account.

How can I remove others privileges/permission‎s?

Also, I want to use "ralf user" without root privileges/permission‎s.

Could you help me?

Thanks

Peace

mayursingru · 04-09-2011, 12:59 AM

Hi peace18,
By default user account created are without root privileges. Just configure your mail client and you are ready to use email account. As far as privileges are concerned you try switching to user ralf and try executing some privileged commands or opening files like passwd,shadow etc. You can use "sudo" to execute commands and open files but not everything will function as root user.

Regards,
Mayur Singru

mesiol · 04-09-2011, 02:19 AM

There is no need to create a user for an email address only. If you only want an email receipient, you can create an alias in /etc/aliases to forward mail for this username to another user.

peace18 · 04-09-2011, 11:09 AM

Hello,

Thanks for your replies.

I am a newbie.

How can I do sudo and alias?

Thanks

teebones · 04-09-2011, 12:12 PM

what mailserver do you use?