topic Re: Sudo for editing files in some directory in Operating System - HP-UX

Sudo for editing files in some directory

Lora Ganeva — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:40:19 GMT

Hi,
I have installed sudo on my hp-ux 11i system and I'm having some troubles with giving permissions to users other than root for editing files. I can't understand where I should put the name of the directory for which the user will have write perm.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Sudo for editing files in some directory

Lora Ganeva — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:58:32 GMT

hi again,

actually the problem is how to allow the writing of files, not only viewing.

Re: Sudo for editing files in some directory

Tom Geudens — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:06:44 GMT

Hi Lora,
While sudo is a great tool for "executing something as another user" I doubt it is usefull for your problem.

Add the users you want to edit those files in a group and change the group-permissions of those files (and make sure the users have access - again by group - to the directory).

Or am I misunderstanding your problem ?

Regards,
Tom

Re: Sudo for editing files in some directory

hein coulier — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:49:39 GMT

watch out to user vi thru sudo : one can execute commands via vi !

Re: Sudo for editing files in some directory

Lora Ganeva — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:56:15 GMT

thank You for your quick replies.
actually the /usr/bin/vi statement si sudoers file does not decide my problem.

Re: Sudo for editing files in some directory

Lora Ganeva — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:20:17 GMT

Thank you all,
the problem was that I put the localhost statement and I had to put the hostname of the localhost server in the sudoers file.