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menu for some options

hi

my customer asked to implement a menu for some linux admin activities for normal user which means using sudo

for example

menu options

1. show network status
2. Disk status
3. CPU resources
4. apache status

but my question is for example for ifconfig I will need
sudo /etc/init.d/service network

my question is how can I avoid asking the password for the user every time they use a option on the menu that would require sudo???

the same for apache or any other option in my menu that would require that

I was thinking to ask the password the first time the menu is invoke but how can I save that password?

any idea I hope you get my idea kinda difficult to explain

thanks a lot

Quote:

Originally Posted by kopper27 (Post 3926772)

You set up the user(s) in the sudoers file to use the NOPASSWD option.

Note that configuring users with "NOPASSWD" commands obviously weakens security as no passwords will be asked. IMO that should only be suggested in rare cases, meanwhile keeping extra security measures to take in mind, and only for users who have no login like for instance a daemon.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kopper27 (Post 3926772)

I was thinking to ask the password the first time the menu is invoke but how can I save that password?

See 'man sudoers', the "passwd_timeout" and "timestamp_timeout" options?

thanks a lot guys I will try NOPASSWD option and check more documentation something else any idea where to find a script like the one my customer is asking me????

I may be wrong, and perhaps just because the example list is so short, but all the options
listed would not need sudo access or at least an alternative could be found that would display the necessary
info

Quote:

Originally Posted by grail (Post 3926928)

maybe what about checking messages logs and ifconfig required root

....

something else

once the script is created I will put at /scripts/menuCOMPANYNAME

I would like to know how to set that PATH to all users

I read it is in /etc/profile
but in the code below I should add /scripts/

Code:

# /etc/profile



# System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup

# Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc



pathmunge () {

        if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then

          if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then

              PATH=$PATH:$1

          else

              PATH=$1:$PATH

          fi

        fi

}



# ksh workaround

if [ -z "$EUID" -a -x /usr/bin/id ]; then

        EUID=`id -u`

        UID=`id -ru`

fi



# Path manipulation

if [ "$EUID" = "0" ]; then

        pathmunge /sbin

        pathmunge /usr/sbin

        pathmunge /usr/local/sbin

fi



# No core files by default

ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1



if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then

        USER="`id -un`"

        LOGNAME=$USER

        MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"

fi



HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`

HISTSIZE=1000



if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then

    INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc

fi



export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC



for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do

    if [ -r "$i" ]; then

        . $i

    fi

done



unset i

unset pathmunge

Quote:

ifconfig required root

Only if you are changing something, you should be able to run ifconfig as normal user for output.
(at least I can on my Ubuntu machine)