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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with user permission Post 302103957 by sb008 on Monday 22nd of January 2007 01:47:33 PM
Old 01-22-2007
I see 2 options to do this.

Option 1:

Create a script owned by root and with the suid bit on it.
That way any used that can access the script is temporary granted root privileges.

However within that script you need to do a lot of checking to make sure that that it records who requested to kill a program/script of another user, and that the program/script requested to be killed is owned by a user who's programs/scripts can be killed by the requesting user.

Option 2:
Create a script which only stores requests into a file.

Additionally create a "root" cron job which reads the file with requests.

Again you will have to do a lot of checking if the requestor is allowed to kill those programs/scripts.



But, if I would be your boss, I would be even less happy about either of these 2 implementations. It opens all kind of possibilities for users to gain root access to your system. So you need to know exactly what you are doing.

I would stick with the sudo command
 

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uudemon(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							uudemon(4)

NAME
uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour, uudemon.poll - Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons SYNOPSIS
These shell scripts reside in the following directory: /usr/lib/uucp DESCRIPTION
All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the scripts, remove the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file. This script reports status to the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID (uucpa) or root. This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com- mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1. This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background. This script polls the systems listed in the /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file. The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script. FILES
Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files. Contains the uucp file. RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1) Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off uudemon(4)
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