HI,

I have a game server running on a Linux9 Shrike machine, and am attemtping to give a user access rights to start and stop the game server on my machine.. Presently I have the game server starting via my rc.local file... How can I give this user rights to start and stop the game server only, without having to provide root permissions, and still have the game Launch on startup/reboot?

Thanks in advance............

The answer my friend, is sudo. Just be sure to only give them access to the commands you want (i.e. don't use the ALL in the command field).

Hmm. The only way I can think of would be to make the game executable "setuid". This means that no matter what user starts the application, it will run with the permissions of a specified user. In other words, linux will "set the user id" of the application to a specified user when it launches. Make the executable setuid to the user you want to give control, and then the user will own the process at all times no matter who started it.

This may be a slight security risk, but it's the only way I can think of to accomplish what you want.

Not quite. What pljvaldez said is correct. Sudo is the preferred method for this scenario.

-twantrd