first question

[David Olbersen]

Peter Lauda wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ladner, Eric (Eric.Ladner) wrote:
> 
> > How about
> > 
> > sudo su - target_user_name -c "/usr/target_user_home_dir/bin/cmd arg"

Eric's solution is OK -- it works (obviously). It's a little messy though -- you've given sudo access to `su`. That kind of defeats the point of sudo! I think a better solution is to fix your configuration so the original (and indeed, acceptable) command works.

Here's an example from my configuration, snipped so that only relevant portions are shown:

  User_Alias	DUMPERS = dolbersen, dpresten
  Runas_Alias RUNASDUMPER = dumper, root
  Host_Alias	DUMPHOST = longboard
  Cmnd_Alias	DUMP = /usr/local/sbin/am*, /usr/local/sbin/AM*

  DUMPERS	DUMPHOST=(RUNASDUMPER) DUMP

This allows users dolbersen (me) and dpresten (my boss) to run any of the amanda (/usr/local/sbin/am*) or amanda wrappers we've written (/usr/local/sbin/AM*) as either user dumper or user root, only on host longboard.

Hopefully this is enough to get you going in the right direction! You should be able to copy & paste your details into my example :)

-- 
David Olbersen
iGuard Engineer
St. Bernard Software
15015 Avenue of Sciences
San Diego, CA 92127
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