topic Re: problem with sudo in Operating System - HP-UX

problem with sudo

Todd McDaniel_1 — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 19:18:34 GMT

I have a small problem with sudo syntax.

I am trying to give oracle permission to sudo for the umount and mount commands for temporary filesystems used for backups. I keep getting syntax problems with my /etc/sudoers file when they try to execute it.

Here is the syntax that I have for the command.
oracle ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/mount -F vxfs -o delaylog,largefiles,nodatainlog,mincache=direct,convosync=direct /dev/vgora4/oradt_fs12 /oradata/fs12

I am not sure where my problem is. It appears that the syntax is correct, maybe it doesn't like the spaces, but I have other entries with spaces.

Thanks for your help.

Re: problem with sudo

Craig Rants — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 19:23:43 GMT

Just try
/usr/sbin/mount *, see if they can run it then. If they can, you probably have run into a limit on the lenght of the command that sudo can handle.

GL,
C

Re: problem with sudo

Craig Rants — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 19:24:45 GMT

Also, as the oracle user what does sudo -l say they can run?

GL,
C

Re: problem with sudo

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 19:26:54 GMT

Why not create a script that has the mount and umount commands in it and then just allow oracle access to the script instead of to the specific mount command?