Users being added seem to have root prileges

[Guest seven212]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this in, so tell me if it isn't. When I add a user through the user manager utility in X, it seems to give them certain root prileges e.g. I can go to console and run the reboot command. I added the user to group users. Can someone tell me how to add a regular user without special priveleges.

[Counterspy]

See the permissions section at http://www.mandrakeuser.org for how to configure who can get at what. You may find other information there useful as well.

 

Counterspy

[Guest anon]

See the permissions section at http://www.mandrakeuser.org for how to configure who can get at what.  You may find other information there useful as well.

 

Counterspy

Don't you mean the doc section in www.mandrakeusers.org :wink:

[Guest seven212]

Well I know what permissions are, are you saying the reboot command has the wrong permissions set? I read "being root" from the documentation, doesn't address adding users.

[DragonMage]

Some functions you see as superuser only (such as rebooting the machine) is executable by all unfortunately since the programs is located in /usr/bin. Maybe you can just make the executables runnable just by root account by changing the permission (chmod and chown commands respectively). Or better yet, just delete those two programs. Me, I like it better that way since I hate going to su to root just to shutdown or reboot the computer.

[Guest seven212]

Ok thanks, I'll consider that. Is there any other programs which "should" be superuser only but everyone else can access? Also, in KDE, there's a logout option from the main menu, will me changing permissions on reboot not allow regular users to reboot like that in KDE?

[Relic2K]

Yeah I have noticed that users have a lot of roaming privilege in Mandrake, more than usual. Unless you give the a false shell.