Re: Administrative rights for special task

[Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>]

Debian Users wrote:

> I would like to give a regular user the rights to do the following on a
> Debian system:
> 
> 1) Install a (secure) ldap server
> 2) Test the server
> 3) Fill in the address "data base" for this server
> 
> Question: Does this user need full root privileges on this machine? Even
> though this is only a test machine, I would rather not have him the rights
> to change passwords and see users files.

You will probably have to install it yourself, but the other two tasks can
be controlled using sudo by limiting the commands the user can run.

Adam