Petre, et al -- ...and then Petre Agenbag said... % % Hi List
Hi!
%
% I've gone through the list for previous questions and the only one that
% seems to be a solution is to use sudo, however, I cannot seem to get it
% right.
...
%
% Obviously these command(s) need to be run as root, so I looked at the
% /etc/sudoers and added apache , BUT, in the error log it prompts for a
% password.
1) Are you sure your web server is running as apache? If not, run
something like
passthru("/usr/bin/id") ;
(or wherever your id program is) in a php page (easier than redirecting
to a file :-) and see what it tells you.
%
% I tried to add the option NOPASSWD: ALL to the file, but it says there's
% a syntax error.
Your line should look about like
admind ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: /path/to/reboot
where "admind" is the name under which your web server runs. In fact, it
should probably look more like
admind hostname = (root) NOPASSWD: /path/to/reboot
to allow admind to run reboot as root on machine "hostname".
Have you read the man page for sudoers? Yes, it's a bit thick, but it
absolutely covers everything you need to know :-)
%
% What am I missing?
Since you haven't shown us your attempt, it's tough to answer that other
than to note that you're at least missing showing what you tried!
%
% Any other ways of doing this? PS, I don't even want to consider Webmin,
% it's way too complicated, I just want a handfull of predefined commands
% to be run, nothing else)
sudo is *definitely* your best approach. It really is. It's easy, too,
I promise.
%
% Thanks
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