Is there a method to easily create a superuser subset

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Is there a method to easily create a superuser subset

Post by erichf » Thu Mar 13, 2014 7:06 pm

I want to create a user that has all the capabilities of a superuser but exclude them from accessing one particular component on the system. I realize that by being a superuser, they could give themselves the excluded capability but it's still the prefered scenario.

Is there a way to create an user equivalent to a superuser subset group without creating a group and manually changing the privileges of all the components on the system to give them access to them?

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Re: Is there a method to easily create a superuser subset

Post by ranwilli » Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:16 pm

No, make the new group take its privileges from Super User, then exclude them from the one component.
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Re: Is there a method to easily create a superuser subset

Post by erichf » Tue Mar 18, 2014 1:59 pm

Of course. Edit Super User. Save as New and then remove the one privilege. I'm assuming that's what you mean.

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Re: Is there a method to easily create a superuser subset

Post by ranwilli » Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:31 pm

No, make a NEW group, Use Super Users as Parent. Go to the item you wish to exclude the new group from, and "dissallow" its inherited permission.
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Re: Is there a method to easily create a superuser subset

Post by erichf » Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:44 pm

Right. That way all of the Super User privileges automatically carry over to the new group.

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