On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:07:12AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > I am confused at the format of sudoers file. Which of following is the > following correct for allowing a particular user run shutdown command: > 1. USERNAME ALL=(ALL) ALL
User USERNAME, logging in from any machine, can run any command on this server as any user. > 2. USERNAME localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now User USERNAME, logging in from localhost only, can run /sbin/shutdown -h now on this server, only as root. That's all to it. Read the man page of sudoers for more details. Binand -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uptime 11:55am up 58 days, 4:49, 2 users, load average: 1023.78, 419.92, 158.90 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
