hi,

I'm trying to get sudo allow a passwordless restart/start/stop of dhcpd/bind

I add a user 'rde' to the sudo group
then use visudo to add a line like this...

%rde ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server

when I run

> /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart

I get this error which is attributed to not having privs on the .pid file and lease files, etc.

dhcpd self-test failed. Please fix the config file.
The error was:
drop_privileges: could not set group id: Operation not permitted

Now, since using sudo to run that commmand doesn't run that problem, how can I replicate that without requiring a password?

any suggestions are helpful.

Thanks.

So far I remember to add a user you just add the name of the user and if thats a group then add a '%' sign in front of it.
Now as you created a user 'rde' then why there is a % sign in front of it.
Also what the sudo log says.