Re: giving a normal user rights to use negative nice values

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On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 17:25 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can someone point me towards a howto on what I need to do to allow a
> non-root 
> user to run commands with negative nice values, eg.
> 
> > nice --adjustment=-10 ls
> nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied
> 
> what do I need to do to allow this ?
> 
> cheers Chris
> 
> 
  Hi Chris,
         Surely this is not intended? I mean the system has priority
because it needs it?
    You could of course do it with sudo. The following in /etc/sudoers
murray   ALL = NOPASSWD:/bin/nice
allows me to do
> sudo nice --adjustment=-10 ls

  Does that do what you need?
        Bill



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