/etc/sudoers problem

Braynid · 10-20-2006, 03:47 AM

Hello!
I have a Ubuntu server 6.06, and what i want to do is grant access to a user (say 'test') on a program (say centericq).
What i have done is:
1) create file 'center' in /usr/bin with chmod 755
'center' contains:

Code:

{ sudo /usr/bin/centericq; }

2) added the following line in /etc/sudoers

Code:

test ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/centericq

3) when i run 'center' as 'test' i get:

Code:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
/usr/bin/center: line 1: 20772 Aborted                 sudo /usr/bin/centericq

Now i know there is a problem here i just don't know what it is. Can you help me?

crazyjimbo · 10-20-2006, 04:45 AM

I'm not really sure what is happening, but why have you put the curly braces around line 1? I assume it is meant to be a bash script so it should also start with #!/bin/sh on the first line.

matthewg42 · 10-20-2006, 07:07 AM

Does the same error occur when you run as your main user with sudo (typing in the password if necessary)?

The error doesn't look to me to be to do with sudo.

One other question - why run this icq chat client with sudo?

Braynid · 10-21-2006, 08:07 AM

When i use root it works fine. i have two similar scripts that work perfectly, they're something like:

Code:

{ sudo /usr/bin/true_etrace "$1"; }

and they work.

I want to run it with sudo so that only one user can acces it beside root.
Thanks!

matthewg42 · 10-21-2006, 09:11 AM

That's curious - it looks like the sudoers file appears to be set up correctly.

Can you do the following commands (as the user for whom the sudo command fails) and post the output?

Code:

id
ls -l /usr/bin/center* /usr/bin/true_etrace