From: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: sudo'ers, I need help!
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:44:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <S267852AbTGTT3b/20030720192931Z+3637@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
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Hello everybody,
I use SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional (with linux-2.4.20 + cryptoapi and
cryptoloop patches) on a Pentium III 450 with 256 MB of RAM. It is a single
machine, no local network, just the ISDN adapter for internet.
Being both the only user and the administrator, I use a non-root account for
everyday work and mostly su to root, if I need root privileges. But often
there is just a single command I want to run or a single file I want to edit
(like building a new kernel and re-running /sbin/lilo or editing /etc/fstab),
and I am aware of the sudo command allowing users to run a command with root
privileges without having to authentify as root and avoiding the risks of
suid-bits. For users to run sudo <command>, root has to edit /etc/sudoers and
add an entry like "user_X is allowed to run command_y as root.
But I don't know about the file format: there is a manpage on this file, but
I didn't find it to be any help.
Can anyone explain this file to me? Give some nice examples, maybe? Or tell
me if there is some kind of HOWTO? If found a German introduction, but I
still don't know how to do this. ;-(
What I want to learn is allow userX to run some commands like vi, make, cp,
lilo, mount, ... as root.
SUID is not what I want, since I do not always want to run these commands as
root, just sometimes.
Or might sudo not be what I am looking for?
Thank you very much,
Kind regards,
Benjamin Walkenhorst
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heiflt noch nicht - verzweifeln."
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next reply other threads:[~2003-07-20 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-20 19:44 Benjamin Walkenhorst [this message]
2003-07-21 9:52 ` sudo'ers, I need help! thomas.wallrafen
2003-07-21 16:10 ` Thanks for help! Benjamin Walkenhorst
2003-07-21 16:23 ` sudo'ers, I need help! - Luis -
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