topic Re: Restricted command in Operating System - HP-UX

Restricted command

suju — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:10:15 GMT

How a normal user can run a script of (containing root privileaged commands) in profile or .profile
So that the owner of the process (script
#ps -aef |grep scriptname) will be root
The script should run in the background.
Need ur help
Thanks in advance.

Re: Restricted command

Autocross.US — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:16:10 GMT

This can be done with sudo.

Run this command to edit the sudoers file:
visudo

Add something like this (for 'user1' as example):
user1 ALL = NOPASSWD: /path/to/script.sh

Then in the user1 .profile, add this:
sudo /path/to/script.sh &

This will run the command as root in the background. For more information on sudo:

http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/

Re: Restricted command

OldSchool — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:16:44 GMT

so, you have some script, lets say "a", and
1) you want to run that during the login process
2) as "root"
3) in the background???

you might (and its not guaranteed to work), set the suid bits on the script in question and make the owner of the script "a" root. HOWEVER, in most cases, the OS will ignore suid on shell scripts (as I recall). AND, even if it works now, it might not in the future.

sudo should allow you to specify that *anybody* can run that specific script w/o requiring a password, and thus might be a viable option.

If you state what the goal of this, rather then how you intend to implement it, you might get better responses.

Re: Restricted command

suju — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:39:56 GMT

Thanks all
I'll try it out, But regarding sudo, I am using Hpux9.0, & I dont have sudo installed
and dont know whether sudo is available/compatible for this verion of Hp-ux.

Thanks

Re: Restricted command

Avinash20 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:00:59 GMT

Yes, it compatible
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/install.html

and you could download the source code
http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.9p19/