permission denied error when restart dhcp3-server
 

Hello..

I have a script that needs to restart my dhcp3-server but is unable to. The server is ran by root by default. I try to issue "/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart" from a php script and I get a permission denied error.

How can I work around to be able to stop and restart the dhcp3 server or how can I run it with a different user?

Add the apache user to sudoers, and grant him the right to execute exactly that
command above.

I did exactly that:

visudo

www-data ALL: NOPASSWD /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart

The error I get is that it can't kill the process id since is running by root. I even changed the ownership to www-data to /var/run/dhcp.pid file and that still can't kill the process and run the new configuration.

Any other idea?

That's not a valid sudoers line, it has no = anywhere.

How did you manage to save that w/o it swearing at you?



Cheers,
Tink

I actually missed putting the = sign on the post. I have it correct in the system:

www-data ALL= NOPASSD: /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart

and the W in NOPASSWD?

As I mentioned, I have it correctly spelled in the sudoers file...