Changing user permissions

XAVeRY · 02-09-2005, 04:05 PM

I've added an user in my Slackware...but now I'd like to modify his priviledges in the system, for example access to mounted disks, shutdown command etc.
How can I do that?

secesh · 02-09-2005, 04:18 PM

there's a couple different things here
1) access to mounted shares
-- you grant these through /etc/fstab, and options like gid/uid/users/umask

2) shutdown command
-- you grant this by giving the user sudo power... read the manpages for sudo, visudo, and vi (the editor used in visudo)

shengchieh · 02-09-2005, 09:38 PM

If you are doing specific file(s), use the chmod command.
[Other useful related command are chgrp and chown.]

Sheng-Chieh