Rich Shepard wrote: > I read the sudoers man page and look at the examples and still don't grok > how to make a simple entry: I want to allow username 'pamela' to run a shell > script in her home directory as root because the script runs two commands > that need root permission. > > Do I need to set up an alias for this, then assign her to that alias? > > In essence, I'd like something like this in /etc/sudoers: > > pamela /home/pamela/shell-scripts/iface.sh root > (username) (command) (as root) > > A clue would be very nice, > > Rich Rich,
Cmnd_Alias HERCOMMAND = /home/her/command Then you can say: pamela her_machine=HERCOMMAND It is almost that simple or without command alias pamela her_machine=/home/pamela/first_command /home/pamela/second_command Russell Johnson beat me to it. The only thing I could add is to use visudo as your editor. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
