giving privileges to an user

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:36:00PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Assuming that you trust them not to do that, or to mess with other system
> accounts, here's what I'd suggest: add the user to the "wheel" group, and
> then add the line "UGROUPS=wheel" to the file
> /etc/security/console.apps/system-config-users.
> This will make it so any members of that group can run the
> system-config-users program by entering their own password, not root's.

(Basically, this is similar to giving sudo access to that program, but uses
a different mechanism.)

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