[CentOS] user nobody can't access file

Valeri Galtsev galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu
Tue Feb 3 23:09:48 UTC 2015


On Tue, February 3, 2015 4:32 pm, Tim Dunphy wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>  I need to give the 'nobody' user (which is what our apache runs as) no
> password access to a file, via sudo. This is what I've tried:
>
> nobody     ALL=(ALL)   NOPASSWD:
> /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php
>
> But if I become the nobody user and try to access the file, it tries to
> prompt me for a password:
>
> -bash-3.2$ php /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php
> [sudo] password for nobody:
>
> Can someone please point out for me where I'm going wrong? Cuz I don't see
> it!!
>

This whole thing sounds scary... Is there really no other (less scary) way
to achieve what you want to achieve?

Valeri

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