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Nefer-Ra

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Registered: 2007-03-18

Posts: 39

Access and Security Issue

How can I give a user access to a root command? Basicly, I want the pppoe-start pppoe-stop pppoe-status script to be started by a normal user ... but the daemon itself, I dont want it to run as root. I did a research into this, back on slackware I did a combination of sudo tricks, but I dont want to install sudo. Is there another way to reach this matter's end?

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Access and Security Issue

i believe you want to join the network group

gpasswd -a USER network

Nefer-Ra

Member

Registered: 2007-03-18

Posts: 39

Re: Access and Security Issue

Allready tryed that, there is no network group. Any other suggestions?

rayjgu3

Member

From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Access and Security Issue

ah there is to a network group
it may not enable you to do what you want but it is there
i just added myself to network group & was able to run

[#localhost ~]$ /etc/rc.d/ppp start
:: Starting PPP daemon                                                   [BUSY]
Please configure /etc/ppp/peers/provider or use a command line argument to
use another file in /etc/ppp/peers/ directory.

                                                                         [FAIL]

as a user but it did nothing as i dont have it setup

or get aquainted with chmod & permissions then

chmod /usr/sbin/pppd

with appropriate permissions to give user access to file

i believe this is the info you are looking for