[sudo-workers] [sudo-users] Installing Application without full sudo privilege

Asif Iqbal vadud3 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 12:16:40 EST 2009


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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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?



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