On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Russell Johnson wrote: > pamela ALL= /full/path/to/script
Thanks, RUssell. > However, if you do this, and Pamela were to edit that file, or worse, > someone else were to edit that file, and Pamela runs it, the whole thing > is running as root, and that could be bad. Add a 'rm -rf /' to the file, > and root just wiped out the system. A) she's not going to edit the script and 2) no one else has access to her portable. > I suggest allowing Pamela to run the two commands she needs to as root. > Which would look like this: > > pamela ALL= /path/to/cmd1,/path/to/cmd2 This is not practical because the appropriate commad depends on the results of a test. > pamela ALL= NOPASSWD:/path/to/cmd1,/path/to/cmd2 I thought that's were NOPASSWD went; thanks again. > Finally, you'll need to put 'sudo' in front of the command in the script. To run the entire script? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
