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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to give root access to non root user? Post 302800719 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 30th of April 2013 11:16:21 AM
Old 04-30-2013
Have a look at the manual pages for sudo and sudoers if they are installed. If not, have a look here

Basically, you can write rules for can be allowed to run certain commands. These can be scripts, or called in scripts.

Consider
Code:
$ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ABCDE123 users        327 Jan  3 16:25 my_file
$ sudo chown ZYX99999 my_file
$ ls -l 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ZYX99999 users        327 Jan  3

You could also do things such as:-
Code:
$ cat priv_script
#!/bin/ksh

print "I am running as `id -un`"
$ priv_script
I am running as ABCDE123
$ sudo su - ZYX99999 -c "/common/scripts/priv_script"
I am running as ZYX99999
$
$ sudo -u ZYX99999 ./priv_script
I am running as ZYX99999
$


Have a good search around these boards for hint on sudo too as many questions have already been asked and answered.



I hope that this helps,

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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NAME

       set_color - set_color - set the terminal color

set_color - set the terminal color
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   Description
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