On 10/11/05, Craig Thomas <cjtinhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:35 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I need users 'dotancohen' and 'work' (that each have their own > > /home/dotancohen and /home/work) to be able to read and write each > > others files (and open programs as the other) as if they were one and > > the same, with out asking for passwords. > > This is two things. A case for sudoers/sudo and *nix file permissions. > Starting a program or running a command as another user and having write > permissions on that user's files are two, different things. > > You can achieve your goal a number of ways. > > For permissions, you could set up a new group, and add dotancohen and > work to the new group. Then chown/chrgp the files > > #chown -R dotencohen:newgroup /some/path > > for each dotencohen and work. Then set the group write bit on the > files/directories you intend to share. > > #chmod -R g+r /same/paths/as/before > > I'd pause and make sure the permissions work. You should be able to > read and write files in /same/paths/as/before as either user. > > > Sudoers could look like this [use visudo to edit]: > > %pals = dotancohen,work > > %pals localhost = (dotancohen) NOPASSWD: ALL > %pals localhost = (work) NOPASSWD: ALL > > > OR this: > > > work localhost = (dotancohen) NOPASSWD : ALL > dotancohen localhost = (work) NOPASSWD : ALL > > This is just quick, not sure everything is exact, but should get you > started. > > Hope you had a better, more productive day today :) > > Craig Thanks, Craig. You saved me hours of googling I think. Must I restart something for this to take effect? I am still being asked for a password. Normally I would just reboot without asking such a redundant question, but in my experience (how little it is), this should not be nessacary. And to restart now would be a pain as I am in the middle of other things... I tried populating visudo with both methods, after creating the group "pals" and making both dotancohen and work members, but no go. Dotan
