topic Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell? in Operating System - HP-UX

How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

happywolf — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:29:36 GMT

I'v a backup shell executed by a common user whose uid is 400. the shell includes some root command such as vgchange. I've tried "chmod +s backup_shell",but it doesn't function. I wonder how to give root permission to the user or how to allow it to execute vgchange?
thanks a lot.

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Victor BERRIDGE — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:33:32 GMT

Hi,
I think the best and safest way would be to use sudo, go and download it from your prefered HP Porting and Archive center...

Good luck

Victor

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Robin Wakefield — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:35:55 GMT

Hi,

You should think about using sudo to delegate root tasks. Have a look at:

http://www.courtesan.com/sudo

Rgds, Robin.

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Rainer von Bongartz — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:44:52 GMT

Only one safe way for me !
Download and install sudo and give this user the right to run this script with root permissions.

Installation and configuration of sudo is simple and straightforward.

Regards
Rainer

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Tim D Fulford — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:47:02 GMT

setuid to zero does not work, unless it is on an approgriate (c/c++) executale program. I'll endevour to get it for you but it may take me a while

Tim

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Tim D Fulford — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:49:55 GMT

Here is a thread which has the prog

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x3de6f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Deshpande Prashant — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:54:45 GMT

Hi
I would prefer to use sudo for such root activities by non-root users.

Check this for download.
http://www.rge.com/pub/admin/sudo/

Goodluck
Prashant Deshpande.

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

linuxfan — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:08:42 GMT

Hi,

well if you want to install sudo in swinstall format, you can grab it from

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/SYsadmin/sudo-1.6.2b1

or if you want the source code and want to compile it yourself, grab it from

http://www.courtesan.com/sudo

Only drawback is the latest version is 1.6.3p7 while the one available from HP site is 1.6.2b1

-HTH
Ramesh

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Wodisch — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:04:01 GMT

Hello,

if you edit your script to have a first line like

#!/usr/bin/sh

then you can set the SUID bit for it!
But sudo is sooooo much better that you should go
for it - making a SUID script "safe" is rather tedious
and would make you a rather "unhappywolf" ;-)

HTH,
Wodisch

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

happywolf — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:06:29 GMT

Thank you all for so rapid response.but I cannot attach the website to get swinstall format sudo. can you help to get it and mail to caol@21cn.com or mycore@sina.com

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/SYsadmin/sudo-1.6.2b1

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:19:23 GMT

The hpux.cs.utah.edu site is apparently down. Here is another to try:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.2b1/

Re: How to abtain ROOT perssion in a common user's shell?

Frank Li — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:01:57 GMT

Hi,happywolf,

After you download the file form hpux.cs.utah.edu , you should first gunzip it before you run swinstall . Note ,it is a zip file . if you download the file with ??.depot , first move it as *.depot.gz and use gunzip.

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