Best way to make a "user" thru terminal that has almost-root priviledges?
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Can show the groups.
You can create the rescue mode in such a way so that the USER has to chroot to his root environment and then perform the rescue operation,e.g. grub re-install,etc.
Well Live CDs don't need root passwords, take Ubuntu Live CD for an example. You just type sudo command, and it can execute a command with root privilege. So, I'm guessing you can add an user guest, then add him to sudoers like:
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guest ALL=(ALL) ALL
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Uncomment wheel group or if it ain't there add it. And make sure you add the user in wheel group. Now everytime user uses sudo, he doesn't need password.
Wait a minute, what are you trying to do exactly? Your aim is to create an user who can run commands with root privilege right?
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Problem?
Most of the rescue apps, like testdisk, magicrescue, fsarchiver,etc
all run in a teerminal
so, these apps must be run as root in twerminal
So why add the users in various groups? I am getting confused now, did you consider my last post? I think adding the user to wheel group will be sufficient.
see, being that its a debian live creation
by default there are no passwords for root and there is no real user
the user "user" is created at boot
as with ubuntu
and you get autologin,etc
and your right, in debian live you also just type sudo su and your root
however, this thread goes to a question I had about the fluxbox menu
which will not let me call up a term as root without password
OR I dont know the syntax to get it to?
cause see here the way the menu is made it doesnt work as root?
only the gksu entry works?
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