easy config problem ...
Kenn Murrah
kenn at thebytebusiness.com
Wed Oct 29 14:07:48 EST 2003
Alek O. Komarnitsky (N-CSC) wrote:
>>From sudo-users-bounces at sudo.ws Wed Oct 29 10:07 MST 2003
>>
>>Greetings.
>>
>>My apologies for the easy configuration question, but I'm having trouble
>>understanding the man file and howtos that I've found so far ...
>>
>>so, I'm trying to create a simple sudo, in which a user "prep" is
>>allowed to execute the "adduser" command .... I've tried adding the user
>>"prep" to the user configuration but visudo complains .... what am I
>>doing wrong? How can I achieve this rather simple goal?
>>
>>Thanks for the help.
>>
>>Kenn
>>
>>
>>
>>># sudoers file.
>>>#
>>># This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
>>>#
>>># See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
>>>#
>>>
>>># Host alias specification
>>>
>>># User alias specification
>>>
>>># Cmnd alias specification
>>>
>>>Cmnd_Alias ADDUSER = /usr/sbin/adduser
>>>
>>># User privilege specification
>>>root ALL=(ALL) ALL
>>>
>>>
>
>
>I can't remember if significant, but we have a TAB delimeter
>after the "Alias" keyword and no spaces between the "="
>I.e. something like the following SHOULD work:
> Cmnd_Alias ADDUSER=/usr/sbin/adduser
> prep ALL=ADDUSER (to be able to run on ALL machines)
> prep abc=ADDUSER (can only run on machine abc)
>
>alek
>
>
>
Now I've seemed to have broken it completely again ... I have:
Cmnd_Alias ADDUSER=/usr/sbin/adduser
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
prep ALL=ADDUSER
and I can't adduser after logging on as prep ....
what am I doing wrong?
thanks in advance,
kennM
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