setting the password of a automatically created account

[Aryeh Friedman]

Sorry not possible due to who the target audience is (no competent admin
available)... I found a better solution last night a quick and dirty suid
wrapper that calls the right program


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Darren Pilgrim <
list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com> wrote:

> On 9/5/2013 9:00 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
>> related questions:
>>
>> 1. How do I add the user to wheel (has it's own group but needs to be in
>> wheel for reason number #2)?
>> 2. How do I modify (in the safest possible way) an other port's installed
>> config file(s) (namely I need to in the case of this port modify
>> /usr/local/etc/sudoers to allow the no password option for wheel members)?
>>
>
> The answer to both is you don't.  Include documentation telling the admin
> exactly what needs special access or elevated priveleges and let the admin
> make that happen.  If you think something needs root because it needs to
> open something in /dev, tell the admin it needs to do something with
> /dev/foo.  Devd and other mechanisms can provide that without root access.
>  The same idea applies to almost all of what people typically think
> requires root access.
>