Sorry for this accidental reply. But I might as well take this opportunity to add to the thread. First, look at the unneeded closing parenthesis in the CMD_CIFS alias. Second, have you tried 'sudo -l' as nobody to see the available list of commands that this user is entitled to run with sudo? MAL ________________________________ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Marc-Andre Levesque Sent: July 9, 2008 11:54 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: RE: [CentOS] sudoers ________________________________ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Tharun Kumar Allu Sent: July 9, 2008 11:36 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] sudoers On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Mário Gamito <gamito at gmail.com<mailto:gamito at gmail.com>> wrote: Yes, I do. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Tharun Kumar Allu <tharun.allu at gmail.com<mailto:tharun.allu at gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Mário Gamito <gamito at gmail.com<mailto:gamito at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I need to run /bin/mount and /sbin/mount.cifs commands as nobody user >> (it has (bin/bash shell). >> >> So, I've edited /etc/sudoers and added: >> >> Cmnd_Alias CMD_MOUNT = /bin/mount >> Cmnd_Alias CMD_CIFS ) = /sbin/mount.cifs >> >> nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: CMD_MOUNT >> nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: CMD_CIFS >> >> But when I run the command as nobody (in the shell), I get the error: >> "mount error 1 = Operation not permitted" >> >> Any ideas ? >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Warm Regards, >> Mário Gamito >> > > May be it is a stupid question but did you execute the command with sudo in > logged in as user nobody > > nobody at yourserver$ sudo /bin/mount[.cifs] > Another stupid question are you editing /etc/sudoers using visudo? normally located at /usr/sbin/visudo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080709/854b24ac/attachment-0005.html>