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Old 05-08-2012, 02:13 PM   #1
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Setup sudo to allow any commands in one directory


Hi LQ,

I'm having sort of a brain lapse at the moment and cannot remember how to setup a single user to run any commands inside of one directory. They should be able to sudo execute any command, rm, cp, ls, etc.. inside of a directory.

So for example purposes lets say username is Bob and he needs to run any command in the /app/ directory. What is the syntax or a good link you can point me to to reference this setup?

Thanks in advance.
 
Old 05-08-2012, 02:16 PM   #2
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In case it matters this is a red-hat distro running sudo 1.7.4p5
 
Old 05-08-2012, 04:18 PM   #3
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After doing some more digging doesn't look like sudo allows this set-up. I thought I had done it before but maybe I am mistaken. This is definitely a piece of functionality that should be looked at though for future implementations.
 
Old 05-08-2012, 04:35 PM   #4
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Marking as solved but will monitor thread in-case anyone has some good info to throw my way.
 
Old 05-08-2012, 07:01 PM   #5
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If you have a soln, please post it.
To me though, your requirement sounds more like a chroot or file ownerships question.
sudo is based on users and cmds, not dir tree location.
 
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Yep chrism no solution with sudo, so no solution = solved I guess. There may be some alternate ways to approach it but I just gave it throughout the filesystem and called it a day.
 
Old 05-09-2012, 11:39 AM   #7
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I have no idea what you are doing but I was interested on seeing the solution to your question. I did a search about sudo in RedHat

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...udo#Using_sudo

And still have no idea

Good luck to you!
 
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There is no solution with sudo to limit access to specific directories. You must do it with chrooted shell access or use setuid/setgid perms. There may be an alternate software solution that someone else has created but I have yet to find it.
 
  


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