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09-05-2006, 01:48 PM
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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!
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09-06-2006, 04:12 AM
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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!
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I'd also recommend reading the manpage sudoers. It has several examples of the magic sudo can do :-) |
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09-06-2006, 04:39 AM
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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!
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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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