Dear colleagues,
I got many responses to my lpc question.
Apparently the most obvious solution is the "sudo" package.
Sudo (superuser do) allows a sys admin to give certain users the ability to
run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments.
Sudo is freeware and is available at:
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo
There are other solutions:
for instance to write a small C program which executes the lpc command and
have it run with setuid as root.
Hasan Atasoy and Donn Aiken even provided me with a sample program.
Thank you very much:
Richard Jackson
Sean Harding
Hoai Tran
Hasan Atasoy
Dagmar Galama
Nikola Milutinovic
Lhercaus
Donn Aiken
May Freesmeyer
Paul Roetman
Frank Wortner
Bruce Senn
George Gallen
Darryl Milczarek
with kind regards,
Tom Zuurbier
Dear Managers,
Is there a way to enable "non-superusers" to execute the lpc clean
printername command.
lpc clean requires superuser privileges.
I want to give our operators (non-superusers) the ability to clean up a
printqueue.
Thanks & regards,
Tom Zuurbier
Received on Thu Aug 24 2000 - 10:53:42 NZST