Please help

[Matthew Hannigan]

Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> Douglas De Vine wrote:
> 
>> my sudoers file:
>> root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
>> www     ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL
>>
>> my command, run as 'www':
>> /usr/bin/sudo echo "Hello" >> /tmp/hosts
>>
>> the error:
>> bash: /tmp/hosts: Permission denied
>>
>> the file permissions:
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     nobody         30 Mar 23 14:26 hosts
>>
> [ ... ]
> 
> A surefire way and much safer way to  make it work would
> be to that entire command in a shell script and only allow
> www to execute that shell script.
> 

Doug wrote back to me to say the surefire way worked.

I'd also like to add that I think the Apache "suexec"
feature does the same thing, with some limitations.
You may be better off using that feature if you're using Apache.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html

Regards,
	-Matt