Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
On Saturday 28 January 2006 01:35 Jorge Almeida was like: I am still having to sudo echo -n mem /sys/power/status and then to enter a password. What am I doing wrong? Did you edit /etc/sudoers? Example: joeuser ALL = NOPASSWD: /your/command/here Remember to edit the file with

[gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Robert Persson
I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am not having any success. The command I want to execute as root is echo -n mem /sys/power/status. I created a bash script

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 09:55, Robert Persson wrote: I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am not having any success. The command I want to execute as root is echo -n mem

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Harald Arnesen
Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am not having any success. The command I want to execute as root is echo -n mem /sys/power/status.