Newbie SUDO question

[mackay at kodak.com]

From: Scott D. MacKay

One idea would be to script it.  Either develop a non interactive non-parameter
accepting script or compile a C program which can kill the process.  Allow them
access to invoke that script/program ala:

Cmd_alias = KILLP = /packages/custom/bin/killit

You wil need, of course, need to have good insurance that the value in the
/tmp/process.pid is actually what it says it is.

-Scott






"Villegas, Beatriz D." <Beatriz.Villegas at ibx.com> on 08/16/2001 04:02:32 PM

To:   "'sudo-users at courtesan.com'" <sudo-users at courtesan.com>
cc:    (bcc: Scott D. MacKay/943904/EKC)
Subject:  Newbie SUDO question



Hello

We are trying to give sudo access to a user that needs to kill a process
that runs as root. We want the user to kill only that process (which is
different every time). We don not know how to specify in the sudoers file
something like:

Cmd_alias = KILL = /usr/bin/kill `cat /tmp/process.pid`

The pid of the process is on the /tmp/process.pid file.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Beatriz Villegas

beatriz.villegas at ibx.com

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