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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