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darkarcon2015 09-05-2006 01:48 PM
limit sudo
 
Is it possible to allow a person in the sudoers file to be able to run only a specific command as root? For instance, I want user "example" to only be able to run the command "wireshark" as root and nothing else. What would I add to the file? Thanks!

w3bd3vil 09-05-2006 02:04 PM
yes you can restrict a sudoer to certain commands.
have a look at this post
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=sudoers

magnus.therning 09-06-2006 04:12 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by darkarcon2015
Is it possible to allow a person in the sudoers file to be able to run only a specific command as root? For instance, I want user "example" to only be able to run the command "wireshark" as root and nothing else. What would I add to the file? Thanks!
I'd also recommend reading the manpage sudoers. It has several examples of the magic sudo can do :-)

reddazz 09-06-2006 04:39 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by darkarcon2015
Is it possible to allow a person in the sudoers file to be able to run only a specific command as root? For instance, I want user "example" to only be able to run the command "wireshark" as root and nothing else. What would I add to the file? Thanks!
Thats exactly what Sudo is supposed to do although some distros like Ubuntu use it instead of a proper root account.


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