How to Create users with Limited Rights in HP-UX 11.11

[telco_1]

Hi i just want to create some user accounts with limited rights which can only perfrom few operational Tasks to fullfill there daily job.

They must not reboot or change any configuraion like root user.

I have tried in SAM application but unable to define the Privelages to the users.Can anybody help me in this regard

[RAC_1]

In there .profile, put a script that would point them to certain thing. You can also look at giving them rsh. (restricted shell)
man rsh for details.

[Shashi Bhargava]

hi,

you can assign restricted shell to user by using this command

useradd -s /usr/bin/rsh username

otherwise you can use sam -> account for users and groups -> users -> action -> add ->
change the startup program to /usr/bin/rsh
->ok

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

It depends on specifically what you wish to allow or disallow.

the rsh, restricted shell limits them a lot, but if they need to do something rsh does not permit it won't work

In general, I create a limited power user group add users to this group and give that group very limited access with permissions and that allows me to do it with a very fine grain as to the do's and don'ts.

SEP

[Yang Qin_1]

Agree with SEP. One more thing you can also try is that use "sudo" to grant users or user group the permission to run certain applications.

Yang