Re: [TCLUG:16699] Useradd

[Eric F Crist <ecrist@ardent-hacker.net>]

That's really insecure, but you CAN do a SUID as 0 (root)
This means that anyone who runs the program will execute it as root.
you will then want to have that exec visible/exec only by a specific group
(admins for ex)

Hope this helps,

Eric


On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Jonathan Kline wrote:
> Is it possible to have users added to a system by a non root user?  So
> that the individual school admins can add users on the main box without
> having root?  Also is there a program which takes a list of usernames,
> passwords and possibly a gid from a file, a single file of the fomat:
> username:pass:gid?  Or somethinging similar?  
> 
> Thanks for the help?
> 
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