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01-02-2006, 03:39 AM
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Registered: Jan 2006
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adding rights to users
Can anybody tell me how you can increase the rights of a user?
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01-02-2006, 04:13 AM
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Indiana
Distribution: Gentoo, Debian, RHEL, Slack
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use groupadd to add the user to secondary group memberships.
Is that what you were asking?
Last edited by musicman_ace; 01-02-2006 at 04:15 AM.
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01-02-2006, 05:00 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: India
Distribution: Redhat 9.0,FC3,FC5,FC10
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You might want to look at useradd and usermod as well...however you might want to look up on google for a few tutorials on this stuff incase the man pages are too confusing...
Cheers
Arvind
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01-03-2006, 04:46 PM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Munich, Germany
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If you mean to give the user some or all rights of the root user then you need to look at sudo - you can allow the user to run some or all programs as the root user.
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01-04-2006, 12:42 AM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Australia
Distribution: slackware 12.1
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if you are looking for giving a user certain rights on directories then setfacl command may help.
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