topic Re: privilege for groups? in Operating System - HP-UX

privilege for groups?

kamal_15 — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:08:34 GMT

hi all

I have hp-ux V 10.2

I created my own group and users members in this group.

I want to know how can i grant privilege to this group or any users inthis group.

and if i want to create user with same privilege with the root.

how can i do it???

many thankx

kamal

Re: privilege for groups?

Peter Nikitka — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:17:10 GMT

Hi,

what do you mean with 'privileges'?
If you think about access permissions for files:
- chgrp MYGRP file...
- chmod 660 file...
-> now all users of the group MYGRP are permitted to read/write file...

If you really want to create a user with the same privileges as root (this 'setting' cannot be got via groups!), you must give him the uid 0 (zero). BUT: I WOULDN'T DO THAT!

mfG Peter

Re: privilege for groups?

Sunil Sharma_1 — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:22:19 GMT

Kamal,

mid three fields in file permissions has permission for groups. you can even use ACL's to assign permission to specific user or group.

Never ever assign root priviledge to any other user. Use sudo to assign selected priviledge to users. If you want to give some user same rights as root then edit /etc/passwd file and change his UID to zero (0).

Sunil

Re: privilege for groups?

kamal_15 — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:00:38 GMT

thankx for your response

but i know there are commands (getprivgrp and setprivgrp).

this commands used to assign permissions or deny permissions from spesific groups.
if it is true?
how can i used this commands to do that?
without change UID or group ID

thankx for help

kamal

Re: privilege for groups?

BONNAFOUS Jean Marc — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:33:33 GMT

Hi Kamal
The setprivgrp command associates a group with a list of privileges, thus providing access to certain system capabilities for members of a particular group or groups. The privileges can be displayed with the getprivgrp command.

For more info:
see
man setprivgrp.
or
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90692/setprivgrp.1M.html for hp-ux 11.x
and
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90129/setprivgrp.1M.html for hp-ux 10.x

Rgds
JMB

Re: privilege for groups?

kamal_15 — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:40:09 GMT

many thankx

i will try to do that commands now

many thankx

kamal