thanks for your advice!
anyway how can i set sudo passwords?
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:06:12 +0800 (PHT)
Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 at 01:16, Percy wrote:
> > percy@messiah percy] sudo -u FULLTIMERS -s |SHUTDOWN
> > Sorry, user percy is not allowed to execute '/bin/bash' as FULLTIMERS on messiah.
> > bash: SHUTDOWN: command not found
>
> "sudo -u FULLTIMERS" tells sudo to run as FULLTIMERS and I don't think
> FULLTIMERS is a user. Besides, if it would follow your user_alias then
> you'd just be looping as percy.
>
> AFAIK aliases are only for use within sudo, meaning you don't explicitly
> say what group you belong to. It's just an easier way of mapping instead
> of listing the ACLs one by one.
>
> So since you're a FULLTIMERS (sic), just do:
>
> $ sudo shutdown
>
> And there you go. Since you have NOPASSWD set, it shouldn't even ask you
> for a password.
>
> BTW, I don't recommend NOPASSWD. Why? Because if you leave the terminal
> open then anybody can use your sudo privileges. Bad enough for you to have
> forgotten to close your terminal. Worse that it can be exploited without
> asking for your password first. Anyway sudo caches the password and
> doesn't ask you every time. There are intervals between password prompts.
> :)
>
> --> Jijo
>
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