Limit unix commands of a user ID

thedragon · 07-16-2002, 01:28 AM

(1) What are the list of commands that can be issued by a user (not superuser, just orindary user) ?

(2) How can an administrator limit a user to use only a subset of commands out of the originally allowed ones.

Please help. Thanks

trickykid · 07-16-2002, 10:42 AM

1. if they are not in the users path and they don't have permissions to use the command then those are the commands they can use.

2. permissions would prevent that.

thedragon · 07-16-2002, 08:28 PM

so do you mean I should restrict them to access the system path which contains unix commands, but I need to copy those commands (which they are allowed to use) to their user path ?

unSpawn · 07-16-2002, 08:37 PM

You could strip off the world executable bit and use sudo to grant per user/group execution rights. Note if it is about binaries whose access is PAMmified there's a simple PAM access module as well works kinda like (hosts|cron|whatever).allow