On Debian, there is a very similar case with cdrecord. If running a kernel beginning with 2.0 or 2.2 then execute cdrecord.shm, otherwise, run cdrecord.mmap.
The code used to do this is: #!/bin/sh VERS=`uname -r` case "$VERS" in 2.0.*|2.2.*) exec cdrecord.shm "$@" ;; *) exec cdrecord.mmap "$@" ;; esac In your case, you want to check for the UID of the user, which in case of root = 0 but users typically are greater than 500/1000. Example: #!/bin/sh h=1 y=45 case "$UID" in # root user ... supplied arguments are used 0) exec <yourprogname> "$@" ;; # regular users ... default arguments are used *) exec <yourprogname> $h $y ;; esac HTH, Hendrik Schaink Roy Souther wrote: > I think this is beyond the ability of SUDO but I need some solution. > > I need to be able to setup some way for a bash script to be run only by > regular users without any arguments and run by root with specific > arguments that are gathered when it is run by a regular user. > > So when Joe runs the script it sees that Joe is not root and so it > builds some arguments and sends it off to itself or another script as > root by some system that works like sudo. > > The reason I think that sudo will not work is I cannot let people run > the sudo script directly and add their own arguments. Example; sudo > thescript h=1 y=45. If run as a normal user it must not allow arguments > and when run as root the only arguments that are allowed are then ones > generated when the script ran as a normal user. > > The only way I think I could make sudo work for this is if the script > when run with sudo as root would check the parent PID to find the > program that called it, but I think that could be faked by creating > another script of the same name. A solution to that would be to some how > get the inode for the current script from the /proc/$$/ files. I know > how to do that. > > So is there a better way? Is there some option I can set in the sudoers > file to do this? > > > Royce Souther > www.SiliconTao.com > Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > > For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
