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Title: Allowing non root user to execute some commands?
Post by: Paul on November 20, 2003, 06:48:47 PM

Greetings,

I would like a way to allow a non root user to execute some commands on the server. Specifically starting/stopping/restarting the pppoe and/or ipsec services.

Any advice on how to accomplish this would be appreciated!


Thanks!

Title: Re: Allowing non root user to execute some commands?
Post by: Curly on November 20, 2003, 09:11:37 PM

Use sudo:

DESCRIPTION
       sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the
       superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers
       file.  

You can specify exactly which commands you would allow an user to execute. But be carefull !