topic Re: Question about sudo in Operating System - HP-UX

Question about sudo

someone_4 — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:25:04 GMT

Hi all

I have a quick question about sudo.
I have a directory called /homepages.

Is there a way that I can give user1 root privilages only in the /homepages direcotry and all of the sub dirs but no where else?

Or is there a way to limit rm -rf only in the /homepages direcotry and all of the sub dirs but no where else?

Thanks
Richard

Re: Question about sudo

David Child_1 — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:48:07 GMT

Richard,

One way to go is create a wrapper script that would basically do something like (we'll call the script: rmscript):

BASE=/homepages
rm -rf ${BASE}/$1

It could then be run like:

$ sudo rmscript subdir1

Some major tweaking is in order, but you get the idea.

P.s. make sure they don't have write access to the script or directory it is in.

David

Re: Question about sudo

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:01:15 GMT

Instead of sudo you should probably be looking at ACL (access contol lists) for something like this.