i want to give access

roobanbe · 09-10-2009, 03:41 AM

hi friends,

i want to give access to an user account(other than root) in the linux rethat server to restart a service like (apache). how can i do it

regards,
P. Rooban

ak99505 · 09-10-2009, 04:18 AM

sudo is the command you're looking for
you can give users our groups of users permission to run select commands as root or as another user

vikas027 · 09-10-2009, 04:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roobanbe

hi friends,

i want to give access to an user account(other than root) in the linux rethat server to restart a service like (apache). how can i do it

regards,
P. Rooban

Here you can find how to assign sudo rights.

druuna · 09-10-2009, 04:51 AM

An entry like this one (goes in /etc/sudoers file) gives specific user(s) the permissions to stop/start/restart apache:

# webadmin users (all the users that may execute the WEBADMIN_CMDS)
User_Alias WEB_USERS = user1, user2

# webadmin commands (just one example command)
Cmnd_Alias WEBADMIN_CMDS = /etc/init.d/httpd

# Start/stop/restart apache
WEB_USERS ALL = NOPASSWD: WEBADMIN_CMDS

After that is set up you can do the following:

sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart as normal user that is defined in WEB_USERS.

Hope this helps.