topic User privilege in Operating System - HP-UX

User privilege

Ahmad Munawwar — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:26:35 GMT

Hello,

My application have a specific administrator user (xadm) that be able to do the application maintenance. Now, I wanted to create a normal user that would be able to execute one of the administrator command.

The reason is that I do not give a user the privilage to have the xadm authority except only for certain command.

How could I do that?

Regards,
Munawwar

Re: User privilege

G. Vrijhoeven — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:30:51 GMT

Hi,

I would install a tool like sudo.

Try:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/fetchmail-6.2.3/

Gideon

Re: User privilege

Pete Randall — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:31:41 GMT

Munawwar,

One possibility might be to make the user part of the sam group as the owner of your xadm command.

The other possibility is to install sudo:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.7p5/

Pete

Re: User privilege

Ahmad Munawwar — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:32:55 GMT

Hi,

Isn't that sudo only for root user?

br,
munawwar

Re: User privilege

Pete Randall — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:34:12 GMT

Munawwar,

Quoting from the man page:

"sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file"

Pete

Re: User privilege

Ahmad Munawwar — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:49:38 GMT

Hi,

Emm.. I will try that.

br,