How do I control "trusted user" to allow regular user accounts access to things like the mailq command or reviewing system logs? TIA, Bill
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 07:49:18AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
How do I control "trusted user" to allow regular user accounts access to things like the mailq command or reviewing system logs?
sudo. It can specify which commands which users are allowed to run with elevated privs. For more complex options, such as reading certain logs, you'll probably want to write scripts/programs that do exactly what you want to allow and allow sudo access to them. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:33:44PM -0500, Frank Sweetser wrote: fs> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 07:49:18AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: fs> > How do I control "trusted user" to allow regular user accounts access fs> > to things like the mailq command or reviewing system logs? fs> fs> sudo. It can specify which commands which users are allowed to run with fs> elevated privs. For more complex options, such as reading certain logs, fs> you'll probably want to write scripts/programs that do exactly what you want fs> to allow and allow sudo access to them. For log reading, why not just put the logs in a group? -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
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