Mandrake 7.1

[Richard Horton]

How can I allow other specific users to be able to run the linuxconf program from the command line on a telnet session. There are 2 specific users (I dont want them to have the root passowrd) that I need for them to be able to telnet into the redhat box and run linuxconf from a vt or ansi emulated session.

I have granted them linuxconf permissions under there used id's, but they still get permission denied errors when trying to run linuxconf.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH · Accepted solution]

Richard, you might want to install and configure sudo - this allows you to specify commands which non-root users can run.

do a search for sudo for more details.

Good luck

[Vincente Fernandes]

Since sudo is already an rpm under Mandrake 7.x, you can configure it to give access to these particular users. Use "whereis sudo" or rpm command to verify whether sudo is installed on your system. Do a man sudo, which will give details about how to configure it. "/etc/sudoers" is the file used for configuring users, permissions etc.

[Jeffrey S. Sims]

You can also do this with linuxconf itself. Go to User Accounts -> Normal -> User accounts, and select the user you wish to give access to, and then select the Privileges tab and grant them access to linuxconf.