converted to trusted system on hpux 10.20

[Norman Emery]

previous to converting to trusted system
we used the quick program to allow selected users (helpdesk) to run commands such as kill and passwd via scripts. Since changing to a trusted system the quick program no longer allows those users to run these commands.
Any suggestions on who to overcome or another way to allow certain logins to perform certain tasks such as killing processes not belonging to themselves and changing passwords for other users vi scripts.

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi Norman,

The short answer is make use of the
'sudo' program.

You can get source here:

http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/

or already compiled from the porting centre.
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.2b1/

HTH
-Michael

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Use Restricted SAM builder.

# sam -r

Restricted sam comes with HP-UX and allows you to create a menu-based system for commands to run under a specific user's privileges (embedded setuid). You can tailor each menu to individual users. Furthermore, you can also enable it to launch upon login and logout upon exit.

man 1m sam for more information.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
Brainbench MVP for Unix Admin
http://www.brainbench.com

[Deshpande Prashant]

HI
I will prefer to build the script for required users group using restricted sam.

Prashant.