you can use the 'sudo' command to allow a use to issue any particular command that ordinarily could only be run by root, you need to edit the /etc/sudoers file to specify what user and what commands and whether the user needs to specify a password, to edit this file you need to logon/su to root and run 'visudo' this opens the file in a mode of vi that will check for errors on the file upon closing you will need to read the man pages for 'sudo' and and 'sudoers' but as an example i added the following to my /etc/sudoers to allow me to run urpmi without suing to root:
bascule mycroft = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/urpm*, /usr/bin/urpm* note that to run urpmi as bascule i have to issue: $ sudo /usr/sbin/urpmi as /usr/sbin is not in the path of my normal user and that 'mycroft' is the name of my machine bascule On Sunday 18 Jan 2004 7:31 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: > How can I allow a single normal user (me) to execute the shutdown command > without changing the suid bit on the shutdown executable? This can > obviously be done if I were using a display manager, but I don't. > TIA > Paul -- 'Does he have people put to death?' said Mort. SOMETIMES. THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO, WHEN YOU'RE A KING. (Mort)
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