Re: Editing /etc/passwd as a non-root user

["Lucas Francisco A. Júnior" <lucasjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you can do that with sudo.

Lucas Júnior
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From: "Haresh Motwani" <haresh@w-o-i.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:19 AM
Subject: Editing /etc/passwd as a non-root user


> I need to read and edit /etc/passwd file thru a script which is running as
> a user.
>
> Can suEXEC do it? is there any other way of doing it.
>
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