Re: Hi All

[Willy Lee <willy2@jps.net>]

"Sathish" == Sathish C <kilaru@netcontinuum.com> writes:

> Hi All

> I want to give permission to create and delete users on my
> machine,to some specified users.  I tried giving execute permissions
> on useradd and userdel to those users.  It did not work. Then I set
> setuid bit and tried. It worked.  Is this going to have any ill
> effects?

Rather than doing this, investigate the 'sudo' package.  Allows you to
specify which users are allowed to run which programs.

=wl

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