Host_Alias questions

[Chip Place]

Todd,

Thanks for the quick reply and the help.  I would normally experiment on my own but I was afraid of locking myself off of the systems I was working on.  I used all of what you taught me and it all works as advertised.

Thanks a million...

chris

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:54:47AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> In message <20020819155044.B22300 at mail.fatadmin.net>
> 	so spake root (root):
> 
> > I have a few quick questions regarding Host_Alias.
> > 
> > 1.  Is there a way to specify Host_Alias -1 host (for example, all hosts exce
> > pt hostX)?  In this example, the user could use sudo on all hosts except host
> > X.
> 
> You can do, e.g.
> 
>     UserX Hosts1, !server = ALL
> 
> to allow "UserX" to run any command on the hosts in "Hosts1" except
> for the machine "server".
> 
> > 2.  Can you add more than one Host_Alias to a User Specification?  Lets say I
> >  have yo Host_Alias definitions:
> > 
> > Host_Alias	Hosts1=hostA,hostB,hostC
> > Host_Alias	Hosts2=hostD,hostE,hostF
> > 
> > Could I set up UserX with this definition:
> > 
> > UserX	Hosts1=ALL Hosts2=ALL
> > 
> > If I can, amd I using the corrct syntax?
> 
> Sure, you just separate the entries with a colon (':'), e.g.
> 
>     UserX Hosts1=ALL : Hosts2=ALL
> 
> > 3.  Can a Host_Alias definition overlap with another?
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > Host_Alias	Hosts1=hostA,hostB,hostC
> > Host_Alias	Hosts2=hostB,hostD,hostE,hostF
> 
> Yes, that's fine.
> 
>  - todd
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