On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Daniel Chenard wrote: > I want to give to some users the permission to start, restart and stop > some services like apache and or mysql. > > I dont want to use webmin for that. > > Someone know if I can do that?? > > If yes, how can I do that?? Use sudo access. Adding something like this to the /etc/sudoers file should handle it: user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/path/to/command parameter1 parameter2 Or %group ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/path/to/command parameter1 parameter2 The second example allows you to set up a group, put specific users into that group, and allows any member of the group to run the specified command. In both examples, the "NOPASSWD" option tells sudo not to ask for the users' passwords. If you want the system to ask for the users' passwords, just remove the "NOPASSWD:" from the entry. Regardless of the entry, you can either "vi /etc/sudoers" or run "/usr/sbin/visudoers" to accomplish the same thing. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
