topic sudoer file help required... in Operating System - Linux

sudoer file help required...

girishb — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:52:58 GMT

Hi,

I need to make entry in sudoer file for couple of application users on RHEL3.0 and Redhat Linux 9.0 Server.

The user must have Read,Write and Execute permission on /var/www folder.

Also the user should be able to start and stop only apache server.

I'm a new bie in Linux and I would like to know what entry should I make in the sudeor file to provide the access..

Thanks in advance for all your Linux Experts onboard....

Girish

Re: sudoer file help required...

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:00:33 GMT

For the folder permissions, use the following commands:

groupadd webdev
chgrp -R webdev /var/www
chmod -R g+w /var/www
usermod -G webdev username

These commands will allow the users in the webdev group to have RWX permissions for the /var/www folder.

The sudoers entry should be:

Host_Alias WEBSERV=host1, host2, host3

User_Alias WEBDEV=user1,user2,user3

Cmnd_Alias WEBCMD=/sbin/service httpd *

WEBDEV WEBSERV = WEBCMD

Use the same entry for all hosts.

Re: sudoer file help required...

Ivan Krastev — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:36:24 GMT

If you add group for users you can use also this:

%groupname host = command
in this case

%webdev WEBSERV = WEBCMD

regards,
ivan

Re: sudoer file help required...

girishb — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:14:07 GMT

Thank you very much IVAN's

Appreciate your responses...

Re: sudoer file help required...

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:21:56 GMT

Hi girishb. You are welcome. Please see also:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

And take a time to review the answers for your questions without assigned points:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/pageList.do?userId=CA1411434&listType=unassigned&forumId=1

Cheers!