full access on perticular folder

[Mark Thompson]

I don't know how you have your sudoers set up, but couldn't you just 
assign this user only commands in the /var directory. listing each 
command separately, or are there too many to list?

Mark

Herbert Wengatz wrote:

> Perhaps you have more in mind to "chroot" his environment?
>
> Read the manpage (man chroot) for chroot and think about it.
>
> IMHO it's not done (or even doable?) with sudo.
>
> Yours,
>
> Herbert
>
>
> srai at zeomega.com wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>         As I am new to Linux, I need some help on sudo. I am using 
>> sudo and
>> it's working fine. Right now I have one user called "rai" who can do
>> anything as root using sudo.
>>         But, This user work full time only on his home folder and 
>> /var, I
>> want something like he can run all the commands as root only in 
>> /var/* and
>> he should not be able to run anywhere else as sudo. Sudo should allow
>> commands as root only in /var/*. I tried googling but didn't get more on
>> this. Is anybody can help me or is if my concept is wrong any other
>> suggestions appreciated. Thanks in advance
>>
>> Rai
>>
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> Unix is the only operating system, where 'more magic' really works.
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