Thanks to all who replayed : "Mike's List" <mikelist@sky.net> "Chong Wan" <wanchong@asiainfo.com> "John Tan" <John.Tan@asx.com.au> "Lito A. Lampitoc" <ral@codewan.com.ph "Februarie Randall" <FebruarieR@aforbes.co.za> Original post at the end. Answer is Yes, it is possible. Most of replies suggested to use "sudo", can be downloaded from www.sunfreeware.com . Use visudo to add a line giving that user permission to use /usr/bin/passwd as root. With this, this user can then "sudo passwd" to change other peoples' passwords. Lock that guy within a shell or menu such that this be his only option, and you'd have what you want. (Otherwise, he may do other stuff that regular users may do - only have root privileges for passwd). Another suggestion was in the following steps:- 1. add a user in the system 2. use command 'setfacl' to grant passwd file privilege to the user 3. change the shell of the user to the a shell script or a c program which function is to change user's password (optional). in this case, the user could only execute automatically the program you specified and could do nothing else. ----- Original Message ----- > Hi, > I'm trying to create a user account on Solaris 8 who has ONLY the right to > change other users passwords, nothing else he should be able to do. > Is this possible, and if Yes, how ? > Thanks > Hisham _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Jan 18 01:05:19 2002
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