Guest seven212 Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest seven212 Posted November 2, 2002 Report Share Posted November 2, 2002 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted November 2, 2002 Report Share Posted November 2, 2002 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest seven212 Posted November 2, 2002 Report Share Posted November 2, 2002 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted November 2, 2002 Report Share Posted November 2, 2002 Yeah I have noticed that users have a lot of roaming privilege in Mandrake, more than usual. Unless you give the a false shell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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