how to make su command available to all users

zchoyt · 04-13-2005, 10:52 PM

Someone told me to type:
chmod +s filename.
This seems to replace x with s, but only for the middle group. If I switch back to normal user I still cannot execute it. Why? How can I make it so every user can use the mount command?

shanenin · 04-13-2005, 11:17 PM

the su command is available to all users, they may need to be in the wheel group. What are you trying to accomplish?

zchoyt · 04-13-2005, 11:28 PM

Well for example, I want any user to be able to use the "mount" command. Currently if I am logged in as "some_user" and type "mount -o ...........//.../..." it will say "only su can do that. I want to make the mount command available for all users to use without having to log on as su. Does that make sense?

[some_user]# mount -o .........
mount: only root can do that
[some_user]#

then I have to log on as su to map the win drives. I want user to be able to do so without su privelages.

reddazz · 04-13-2005, 11:34 PM

Use sudo to do that. Do "man sudo" to find out more info.

Jimbo99 · 04-13-2005, 11:58 PM

Heh, give up on man. It is old and antiquated written for the bozos that created it. Most of the time you can just type <command> --help and that's sufficient. But the man pages just have to die. They are big pieces of shit. Sorry for my bluntness.

jmajor · 04-14-2005, 01:42 AM

Edit your /etc/fstab and add 'user' or 'users' to the options field of the mount point that you want users to be able to mount / unmount.

users will allow users who did not mount the mount point permission to unmount it. user will not.

kencaz · 04-14-2005, 02:09 AM

There is a reason why mount is only available to root... That is why Linux is a secure OS. If you really want all your users to have mount priv. just give them all your root PW.

Linux is not windows... just going to have to live with it...

KC

reddazz · 04-14-2005, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jimbo99
Heh, give up on man. It is old and antiquated written for the bozos that created it. Most of the time you can just type <command> --help and that's sufficient. But the man pages just have to die. They are big pieces of shit. Sorry for my bluntness.

Well thats your opinion. You will notice that if you just enter "command" or "command --help", you don't get the same amount of information compared to using "man command".