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Greycloack

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Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 166

runing proftpd with sudo

Hello, I wanted to be able to run proftpd on port 21 as a normal user, say john, so I tried to use sudo.
When I edit /etc/sudoer with visudo I add the line
john ALL=(ALL) /usr/sbin/proftpd NOPASSWD=ALL

and he tells me " Syntax error"
what am I doing wrong?

Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 1,797

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Re: runing proftpd with sudo

Try:

john All = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/proftpd

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