easy config problem ...

[Alek O. Komarnitsky (N-CSC)]

> 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

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