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eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

[SOLVED] running a program as root without password

im trying to have netcfgGUI to be able to run with SU privileges without a password. yet im having problems with the sudoers file. its being ignored.

the line im using to have this setup is the following:

%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/netcfgGUI

yet when i execute netcfgGUI with

$ sudo netcfgGUI

it still asks for my password. as if the line was being ignored... i tried loging out/in again...

anyone got a clue what im missing?

Last edited by eldragon (2009-03-06 15:54:58)

klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: [SOLVED] running a program as root without password

Make sure the NOPASSWD line is at the end of your sudoers file. Otherwise it gets ignored.

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R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: [SOLVED] running a program as root without password

Have you considered chown root:root name_of_program; chmod +s name_of_program ?

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eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

Re: [SOLVED] running a program as root without password

Make sure the NOPASSWD line is at the end of your sudoers file. Otherwise it gets ignored.

ahh that was it... thanks..