Allow a password change to only specific accounts

[Miles, Karl]

Ken,

Try the following command alias:

Cmnd_Alias	ACCTS=/usr/sbin/usermod [!-]?*, /usr/sbin/usermod -D?*,
/usr/bin/passwd cdp*, /usr/bin/passwd cmk*

The first entry of ACCTS prevents any switches, the second allows only the
'-D' option.  Third and fourth will allow only the
passwords to be reset for 'cdp*' and 'cmk*' accounts.  Works for me!

Hope that helps !

Cheers

Karl Miles
Computer Security
Littlewoods Retail Limited
+44 (0) 151 235 2760
mailto:karl.miles at littlewoods.co.uk



-----Original Message-----
From: McCoy Ken - kmccoy [mailto:Ken.McCoy at acxiom.com]
Sent: 20 September 2001 19:48
To: 'sudo-users at courtesan.com'
Subject: Allow a password change to only specific accounts



Hi folks, 
Kind of an unusual type change here.

I want to be able to allow a group to only change passwords for user
accounts that begin with the letters cdp and cmk. So far I haven/t figured
it out.

I've tried things like:

Cmnd_Alias      ACCTS=/usr/sbin/usermod -D,/usr/bin/passwd c*

Cmnd_Alias      ACCTS=/usr/sbin/usermod -D,/usr/bin/passwd [c][d][p]*

Cmnd_Alias      ACCTS=/usr/sbin/usermod -D,/usr/bin/passwd c*?


but sudo come back requesting the password and will let me change the
password for any account that I specify.

Any Ideas?


Thanks,
Ken McCoy


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