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Re: [TCLUG:16699] Useradd



if you are using redhat, the linuxconf configuration system allows you to
define optional admins for doing user accounts, without giving them root
access.  you could also use sudo to give them access to the scripts

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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 "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."

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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