useradd

dorilevy · #1 (**permalink**) 10-18-2004

Hi.

due to some needs i gave a user the premission to use useradd command with sudo.
i want to know if there is a way to let him set the initial password, without giving him the premission to use passwd command as root (sudo).

maybe a way to set a default password for all the new users that created????

BTW - im using sun-solaris 8.

Dori

hassan2 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-18-2004

modify your sudoers file so that your

users can run command /usr/bin/passwd and /usr/sbin/userradd

so your /etc/sudoers file might look like

# User alias specification
User_Alias HELPDESK = userA, userB, userC, UserD

# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias ADMIN = /usr/bin/passwd /usr/sbin/useradd

# User privilege specification
HELPDESK ALL=ADMIN

when userA login in userA can set password by issuing

sudo passwd "username"

userB, userC and userD can also set password without the for root access

dorilevy · #3 (**permalink**) 10-19-2004

Thank you for the quick reply, I will try it.

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