Hiding sudo from sudo users

[Brent]

One option that you have is creating a alias
Like something like this..

jobstatus="/usr/local/bin/sudo jbstatus /dev/jb0"

Brent


zahst at act.org wrote:

>      I was wondering if there was a way to allow users to run sudo commands
>      without typing sudo <command> and just type the command instead.  I
>      know it sounds crazy, but here's why.
>
>      I need to allow anyone logged in as user techsupp to be able to run
>      commands in the /usr/etc directory.  Currently they are allowed to run
>      a restart command on another machine, but they don't type sudoalias
>      restart.  A script was setup that when they type restart, it calls the
>      /usr/local/bin/sudo then the path to the restart command.  The reason
>      for this is security, we don't want them knowing they are accessing
>      things any differently than normal.
>
>      Is there a way that a techsupp user can type the command:
>
>      jbstatus /dev/jb0
>
>      without typing sudo jbstatus /dev/jb0
>
>      If there isn't any easy way to do this, then I'll have to setup
>      separate commands for each command in the /usr/etc directory for them
>      to be able to run.  This I can do, but there's over 100 of them and I
>      really don't have the time.
>
>      All this is being done on an IBM RS/6000.
>
>      Thanks,
>
>      Tony
>
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