I have Cent OS 4 installed on my computer, with cable internet. My ISP requires me to login to the account before I can access the Internet. I require to type some commands to get it working. (It comes with a software which I have installed) But that requires root access. I have many users on this computer, who can't access the Internet without my permission ( And I can't tell them the root password..NO please I have my own reasons.)
Is there any way, that they don't have to type the root password (Something like Sudo) and still get access to the internet? If not they have started demanding Windows, which I don't want to install.
Thank you.
You chould set up sudo to just allow users in a particular group to run that command as root. If all your users, login on the console first, you can use consolehelper.
Sean
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 02:56 +0000, duffmckagan wrote:
I have Cent OS 4 installed on my computer, with cable internet. My ISP requires me to login to the account before I can access the Internet. I require to type some commands to get it working. (It comes with a software which I have installed) But that requires root access. I have many users on this computer, who can't access the Internet without my permission ( And I can't tell them the root password..NO please I have my own reasons.)
Is there any way, that they don't have to type the root password (Something like Sudo) and still get access to the internet? If not they have started demanding Windows, which I don't want to install.
Thank you.
On 8/22/05, Sean O'Connell oconnell@soe.ucsd.edu wrote:
You chould set up sudo to just allow users in a particular group to run that command as root. If all your users, login on the console first, you can use consolehelper.
Sean
Can you guide me to setup sudo please? I know how to use it (done that only on Ubuntu systems, where all is already setup) Do I need to add a group called Sudoers?
Please clarify some things in here. I have no idea how to add sudoers. :(
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On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 03:03 +0000, duffmckagan wrote:
On 8/22/05, Sean O'Connell oconnell@soe.ucsd.edu wrote:
You chould set up sudo to just allow users in a particular group to run that command as root. If all your users, login on the console first, you can use consolehelper.
Can you guide me to setup sudo please? I know how to use it (done that only on Ubuntu systems, where all is already setup) Do I need to add a group called Sudoers?
Please clarify some things in here. I have no idea how to add sudoers. :(
You can do this one of several ways.
Create a unix group called it something meaningful -- say "netsetup". Put all the users you want to run this command in that group. Then run the visudo command as root, and add something like
%netsetup ALL = /path/to/network-setup-script
You'll need to play with this a bit. Alternatively, you can setup a Cmnd_Alias and User_Alias list in /etc/sudoers using visudo and do it that way. It just depends on how you want to manage things. The first lets you setup the sudo portion once and manage access to this command via a unix group. The second option lets you do all the management via the visudo command. Look at the examples at the end of the end sudoers man page (man sudoers) for more on how to use the Cmnd_Alias and User_Alias directives.
Sean
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