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From: Geoffrey King <gjking@MIT.EDU>
To: Hoi Wai Thomas Cheng <hoiwai@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Setting up private user accounts
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:26:50 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 01:09:23 EDT
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> I want to create a separate list of users who can telnet & login to my
> computer, and access my harddisks. How do I setup that on my
> athena-linux?
You should have a utility called adduser (it lives in /usr/sbin) that
you can run as root to add new users to the system. You then use the
passwd command as root to set each user's password individually.
However, the adduser script isn't Athena-aware, so there are a few
other things you need to take care of. You should set all UIDs and
GIDs to numbers above 30000, to avoid conflicts with Athena. The best
way is probably to change the following 2 lines in /usr/sbin/adduser
to 30000:
FIRST_UID=500
FIRST_GID=500
Then, you'll need to copy the new entires in /etc/passwd into
/etc/passwd.local, or else they'll disappear each time you reboot.
Finally, if you want the local users to be able to receive mail on
your machine, you should add them to /etc/localusers.
> And how to set the access level of these users?
I'm not really sure what you mean by access level. Could you explain
further?
Geoff
