PROBLEM:
Some days ago, I wanted to know how a non-root user could execute
some commands, just like shutdown, in an alphaserver 2100, with OSF 2.3C.
SOLUTION:
There is a tool called "sudo" that lets you do that. You can get
that tool
from
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/sysadmin/utilities/cu-sudo.v1.4.tar.Z
This is a free software product that allows you to enable some users
to run some determined commands as root. All your have to do is to
compile and install it, and edit a file /etc/sudoers (with a special editor
of that tool, called visudo), to set up the appropiate privileges.
After compiling and installing this tool, you can get more information
about how you can use it with:
man sudo
man visudo
man sudoers
In the last file, there are some examples for enabling privileges to certainusers.
THANKS TO WINFRIED HUBER, FOR HIS HELP !!
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Received on Thu May 30 1996 - 01:25:04 NZST