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

Makarand Dongare mmdongare at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 14:56:10 EST 2009


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.


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
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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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> 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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