[Voyage-linux] add user

[Yiorgos Adamopoulos]

jeffery at martcoinc.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>  
>  
>     I would like to be able to add a user with rights to remountrw and 
> edit /etc/network/interfaces. I do not want to give them complete root 
> rights though, only what has been stated. Can anybody help me with this?
>  

You have to install sudo (from the Debian archives) and then use the 
command ``visudo'' to configure it so that the limited user account that 
you want can execute remountrw as root.  As far as editing 
/etc/network/interfaces, create a group (say interfaces) and make that 
user a member of this group.  Then as execute:

# remountrw
# chmod 0664 /etc/network/interfaces
# chgrp interfaces /etc/network/interfaces