Scripting/permission help needed

[Sreejith Kaliyam]

Hi,

I have one script whiche create some report (say a.exe)and this file reads password info from another file(b.ini).I dont want user to view the password(b.ini) but excute the report script.I tried with SUID,But didnt help. Can any bodygive some input to achive this (script/permmission)

Thanks in advance

Anoop

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi Neil,

Use sudo for this case which will run your a.exe script as user and read the b.ini (password file)

Change the permission of b.ini file to 000 to no one can read it and then use sudo
sudo -u -s "command"

download sudo from here
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.8p6/

cheers
Rajeev

[Sreejith Kaliyam]

Hi rajeev,

Thanks for your reply
How do I create /etc/sudoers file

Anoop

[Mehmood Ansari]

Hi Desai

If you down loaded sudo go to /usr/local/sbin
than type ./visudo you will see example how to defined the command and permission.

[Sreejith Kaliyam]

Hi

I am little confused with it's man pages.Can you post some examples??

Thanks & regards

Anoop

[Rajeev Shukla]

Here is what syntax u'll have in /etc/sudoers file

usr1 system1 = NOPASSWD: /bin/kill, /bin/ls

this means a usr1 on system1 can run commands like /bin/kill and /bin/ls as root without being prompted for password

Have a look at the man pages of sudoers u'll have more options like if you want to be prompted for password or want to run as someother user etc..

Cheers
Rajeev

[Sreejith Kaliyam]

Thank you all