Summary: SUDO question

From: Loukinas, Jeremy (Jeremy.Loukinas@evenflo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 08:21:02 EST


Lots of good answers from everyone thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Belei [mailto:vbelei@counterpane.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 4:44 AM
To: 'Loukinas, Jeremy'
Subject: RE: SUDO question

It can be done.
 
-u

The -u (user) option causes sudo to run the specified command as a user
other than root. To specify a uid instead of a username, use #uid.

To edit the index.html file as user www:

 % sudo -u www vi ~www/htdocs/index.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Loukinas, Jeremy [mailto:Jeremy.Loukinas@evenflo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:29 PM
To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
Subject: SUDO question

When using SUDO can you allow non-root users to run scripts/commands as
users other then root?
I have an application ID that I want users to be able to issue commands as
but most docs refer to SUDO being used for root commands?
 
 Jeremy S. Loukinas
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