topic Re: User&commands in Operating System - Linux

User&commands

Fadia Almarei — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:19:50 GMT

Dears

I want to give a certain user the ability to use a certain number of command in unix not all , how could i do this .

BR;
Fadia

Re: User&commands

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:45:36 GMT

Shalom,

First you need to get the commands onto your system. I'll assume you can handle that or have handled this.

man sudoers

Linux has sudo installed by default.

You can give any user any root commmand by merely editing the sudo configuration file.

http://www.wlug.org.nz/SudoHowto

SEP

Re: User&commands

Alexander Chuzhoy — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:01:45 GMT

You can use a restricted shell for that:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Scripting/Shellorama/restricted_shell.shtml