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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers grant sudo permission Post 302524226 by fpmurphy on Sunday 22nd of May 2011 12:07:26 PM
Old 05-22-2011
It is quite simple. A few examples should clarify it for you.

You can grant users jelo and kiki full access to all privileged commands, with this /etc/sudoers entry.
Code:
jelo, kiki  ALL=(ALL) ALL

This is generally not a good idea because this allows jelo and kiki to use the su command to grant themselves permanent root privileges thereby bypassing the command logging features of sudo.

A better way is to grant access to specific program files. For example, this /etc/sudoers entry allows user jelo and all the members of the group operator to gain access to all the program files in the /sbin and /usr/sbin directories, plus the command /opt/oracle/check.pl. BTW, the trailing slash (/) is required to specify a directory location:
Code:
jelo, %operator ALL= /sbin/, /usr/sbin, /opt/oracle/check.pl

Read the sudo man page for more information. It is quite comprehensive.
 

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