[sudo-users] Installing Application without full sudo privilege

Asif Iqbal vadud3 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 14:57:38 EST 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Makarand Dongare <mmdongare at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just use root.sh without complete path as the oracle dba will need to
> cd to the path and run as sudo ./root.sh. This way it should work
> fine.

very good idea !!

>
>
> On 2/13/09, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Makarand Dongare <mmdongare at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> First thing is that Oracle does not need to be installed as root.
>>> There are couple of scripts that need to be run as rootpre.sh or
>>> root.sh. Once you do that for app team, they do not need root access
>>> for anything.
>>> If you want to give them root access to run those scripts then give it as
>>> below:
>>>
>>> oracle servername=(root) full-path-for-command
>>
>> What if the path name is differnet for different env? Can I do it like
>> this /*/root.sh for path?
>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Makarand Dongare
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/13/09, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> My application team needs to install Oracle on hosts. They are asking
>>>> for full sudo privilege, so that they can install app as root.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a lesser privilege that you can suggest then
>>>>   user ALL=(ALL) ALL
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
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>> Asif Iqbal
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