user admin by non-root user

[Adam Noble]

As per my normal forum discussions a vague subject matter again. We have a server which has a high turnover of new user requests, due to the trivial nature of adding users we were hoping to offload this task onto another team. We currently have a script we use to add the users which obviously runs as root. Can I get that script to run for a specific user (setting the sticky bit?), alternativiley how can I get non-root users to create user-ids securely. Apologies I have been looking for any white papers on this sort of thing without success.Any ideas would be appreciated.

[Niraj Kumar Verma · Accepted solution]

Hey !!!


use sudo
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/sudo/

-Niraj

[Adam Noble]

Thanks rings a bell and I have now located a couple of white papers. Cheers

[Niraj Kumar Verma]

Hey !

you can find more info about sudo here

http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/

Regards
-Niraj

[Adam Noble]

yes thanks, I have actually used it before I believe I was just being dim, thanks anyway!

[Pete Randall]

Adam,

Don't forget to check out restricted SAM (sam -r). Sounds like exactly what you want to me.

Pete

[Adam Noble]

yeh thanks Pete, the only problem with that is it would be a two prong process, as the script that runs creates access to certain applications aswell. Anyway thanks!