How do you add users accounts in rh8 without giving out root

How do you add users accounts in rh8 without giving out root in shell

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adduser passwd You should check out this site:

http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/

Section 3) Basics has good explanations for this stuff.

-Chris

I use linux all the time for about a year, just not sure if I am breaking any rules or breaking my image. Thanks Linode is just awsome, I am little nervous don't want to break anything

Cool :)

Try anything and everything, and if it doesn't pan out, you can delete your images and re-deploy a fresh install.

Go for it!

-Chris

@You_Wish:

I use linux all the time for about a year, just not sure if I am breaking any rules or breaking my image. Thanks Linode is just awsome, I am little nervous don't want to break anything

You might want to try out http://freshmeat.net/projects/webmin/?topic_id=253 [Webmin] It's a simple web-based interface which lets you perform several operations/configuration on your system, and you may even let other users adminster certain parts of your server without giving them root access.

Erik

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ducky AT thermofart DOT homeunix DOT net

You might want to google for "sudo adduser". Be sure of what you are doing, for sudo is an easy of getting rooted :^)

Sunny Dubey

Outstanding support problem fixed Thanks!

@sunny:

You might want to google for "sudo adduser". Be sure of what you are doing, for sudo is an easy of getting rooted :^)

Sunny Dubey

how to you mean?

Obviously it's a bad idea to give everyone sudo * root, but

is sudo insecure in other ways?

-Ashen

@Ashen:

Obviously it's a bad idea to give everyone sudo * root, butis sudo insecure in other ways?

-Ashen

sudo is easy to setup incorrectly. read the sudo faq if you need to use sudo for some reason.

-e

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