How to give a user only ftp server privilege using sudo?

dolceinter1 · 11-04-2008, 01:10 PM

I'm the root I'm trying to give user Mike only ftp server rights using sudo.

For example, The user joe may only su to operator:

joe ALL = /usr/bin/su operator

Now, what to do to give user mike only ftp servers rights?

Please help!!!

cygnal · 11-05-2008, 07:56 AM

You can either use the startup script in /etc/init.d:

Code:

mike ALL=/etc/init.d/NAME_OF_FTP_SCRIPT start, /etc/init.d/NAME_OF_FTP_SCRIPT stop, /etc/init.d/NAME_OF_FTP_SCRIPT restart

or, if you have Fedora or RedHat, you can give him permission to use the 'service' command:

Code:

mike ALL=/sbin/service FTP_SERVICE_NAME start, /sbin/service FTP_SERVICE_NAME stop, /sbin/service FTP_SERVICE_NAME restart, /sbin/service FTP_SERVICE_NAME status

The above will give him permission to start, stop, restart, and check the status of the ftp server daemon. FTP_SERVICE_NAME will be whatever the name of the ftp service is, depending on which one you have installed (most likely vsftpd). NAME_OF_FTP_SCRIPT will also likely change depending on which ftp service you have installed.

Remember to use the visudo command to edit the /etc/sudoers file, it locks the file from being accessed by anyone else while being edited and provides syntax error checking.