A visudo script?

djsodom · 02-27-2007, 07:42 AM

I'm writing an automatic deployment script to set up a fedora server. As part of this, I'd like to be able to script adding new users and permissions to the sudoers file. For example, I'd like to automatically paste in 'myusername ALL = ALL to the bottom of /etc/sudoers. Ideally it would use visudo to prevent any errors.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Steve

unSpawn · 02-27-2007, 07:53 AM

You can (backup and then) write* to it since it's just text/plain.
After writing execute "visudo -s -c -f /etc/sudoers" and check the exit status.

* I mean visudo uses the VISUAL or EDITOR envvar, so yeah, you can probably set it to "vi" and make it execute a script, but what's the added value of doing that?..