-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Analabha Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Siglinux] User needs to run script 'as root' > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:15:53 -0600 > > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 06:10, Daniel Brown wrote: > > > On Mon, February 14, 2005 20:48, Analabha Roy said: > > > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 20:29, Daniel Brown wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:19:53PM -0600, Doug McLaren wrote: > > >> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:12:06PM -0600, Alfonso Lopez wrote: > > >> > > > >> > | I have a script that sets up my wireless connection for me, using a > > >> > | variety of root only commands. I would like to have my users be able > > >> to > > >> > | run it. Changing the permissions to allow executions doesn't do the > > >> > | trick since the script calls ifconfig/iwconfig etc. > > >> > > > >> > Google for `sudo' or `super'. You may even have one of them installed > > >> > already. > > >> > > >> I use sudo to execute the scripts I wrote to manage my wireless > > >> connection. :P > > > > > > Is that a good idea? I mean, sudo means that anybody in the sudoers list > > > can execute ur script with root privs w/out the root passwd, is that > > > wise? > > > > sudo can be very restrictive. In /etc/sudoers you can specific which users > > can run which commands with which arguments. I normally don't use the > > sudo-for-everything configuration. > > > > > Why not use kdesu instead? Just add a line "kdesu -c "/path-to-script" > > > and all u have to do is enter the root password when the GUI prompt > > > shows up. > > > > Prompts break automation. I'd rather have a script that runs silently (and > > doesn't depend on a windowing environment). > > > > > It's what I do, I'm just not too comfortable with sudo. In fact, the > > > only file that I have sudoed is the "su" binary itself (can't do without > > > THAT, heh). > > > > Hmm, I think there is a different way to do that. If you are on gentoo, > > add your user to the wheel group to give them permission to run su. > > sudo->su seems excessive. > >
Ya, but do I have to do that to the daemon users also, or just the actual ones? > > > > > > danb > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Analabha Roy Graduate Student > > Department Of Physics, University of Texas, 1 University Station > C1600, Austin, Texas 78712-0264, United States emails: > [EMAIL PROTECTED], Home Page: > http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel > > Get Firefox! > > ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Analabha Roy Graduate Student Department Of Physics, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712-0264, United States emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Home Page: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel Get Firefox! ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
