Privileges

[Narjis Zaidi]

Dear All,

Is there any way to give access
to certain users to be able to change
passwords of all other users apart from
root?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Edit a C program with passwd user,insert a if>then>else user=root exit and chmod 4501.

[Paul Murray_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

The easiest way to accomplish this is via SAM. From the root account run "sam -r" to enter the resticted SAM administration window.

From there, you can assign the "Account Maintenance" areas to any user you require.

Hope this helps,

Regs,
Paul.

[Pedro Sousa]

Hi.
another way to do this is with SUDO (http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.2b1/)
You can give any priviliges with this SW.
good luck.

[Narjis Zaidi]

Thank you all very much for this - it is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks again

[Paul Murray_1]

Me again ...

I forgot to add, that restricted SAM will not allow root password modifications.

Regs,
Paul.

[Shannon Petry]

Sudo is another option.....You can setup groups or users to access commands as root. I use this more for mounting cd's, but as you can specify which command and who can access at what level, sudo gives alot of flexibility!

NOTE: None of the options given will work with NIS or NIS+!!!!

Regards,
Shannon