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Old 11-07-2001
Question user creation privileage
hello,

How do I assign a user to create users other than root in linux . I want to create a users from other user.

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varma
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Old 11-07-2001
To the best of my knowledge, there is no simple answer here... The first thing that popped into my mind was sudo.

It will definitely take some time getting the config (/etc/sudoers) right, so they have enough privelage to create users, but not enought to run around as root... If it is installed on your system, check the manual page for sudo, sudoers, and visudo.
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Old 11-09-2001
Assign the user in question to be a member of Group 14 (sysadmin) as a secondary group. This will allow them to do certain things, such as add users, that are normally reserved for the superuser.

This should do it, and this is basically universal across all unix platforms.

M.
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Old 11-09-2001
It depends whether some "useradd" command belong to group "sysadmin" ...
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Old 11-09-2001
Hammer & Screwdriver
no it doesn't, unless you know something that I don't
 
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