user permissions.

mark m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Wed Dec 10 15:51:13 UTC 2008


krishna kilari wrote:
> even if someone has permission on /usr/sbin/useradd.But if he cant get in to
> the dir /usr/sbin . Then he cant execute the useradd command.

I've never seen permissions on /usr/sbin locked down so that users couldn't
access any of the commands. On the other hand, I've also never seen /sbin or
/usr/sbin in any ordinary user path, so that to even try, they need to give the
full path (or modify their PATH).

	mark
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:50 AM, duncan (sadc) <duncan at sadc.info> wrote:
> 
>> check sudoersls -l /usr/sbin/useradd -- see the permission like user and
>>> group
>>> cat /etc/group -- see users in which group
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Madan Thapa wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Rohit khaladkar
>>>>> <rohit.khaladkar at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All!
>>>>>> Just wanted to know if there is a way to find out if the logged in >>
>>>> user
>>>> has
>>>>>> the permission to create a new user in Red hat linux.  I guess one way
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> be to check in the sudoers file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please let me know if anyone has any other ideas.
>>>>> chmod 750 /usr/sbin/useradd
>>>>>
>>>> Which would work if the logged-in user has root among their groups. If
>>>> not,
>>>> no.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  i also have almost the same problem. Can someone verify if these group
>> entries are correct . Took them from /etc/group
>> root : x : 0 : root
>> bin : x : 1 : root,bin,daemon
>> sys : x : 3 : root,bin,adm
>> adm : x : 4 : root,adm,daemon
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