[ale] RH 7 access to kppp without root password

Tim Koeller tkoeller at att.net
Sun May 13 23:54:32 EDT 2001



> I want
> to allow user Joe to be able to use kppp and not allow user Jack.
> Neither one of them should know the root password.  Could someone show
> me the light?
> 

I'm just thinking out loud now, but couldn't you use the following concept 
on a small system (we wouldn't want to generate a large administration problem).

Couldn't you take away the execute permissions on kppp from "all users" and put
"Joe" in a group that can execute kppp?

Tim
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