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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Touch - changing date and time Post 302931026 by Corona688 on Friday 9th of January 2015 01:12:45 PM
Old 01-09-2015
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Originally Posted by brjohnsmith
Hi Corona688,

Thank you for providing me this code, but the problem is that I never know who is the user, because it could be anyone
Read it more carefully please. sudo will allow anyone in the group user1 to touch user1's files.

If anyone not in the user1 group tries to use the script, sudo will refuse it.

If the file in question does not actually belong to the user user1, touch will refuse it.

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Besides this, the folder where the file is, it could be anyone as well.
Do you mean anyone or anywhere?

If you're content with anyone in the user1 group being able to set dates on any one of user1's files, you can rip out my error checking in a quarter-second.

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as this script is executed by the application, I thought that this script could run under root and the touch command would be executed as well.
Never never never.

Any bugs in the script, etc can only do as much damage as the user it runs under.

If you have no reason to run it as root, never run it as root.

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I am not sure if it is possible a script be executed as root via sudoers.
It is possible. I just showed you how to do it.
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Would it be possible? How the script could be and the changes on sudores?
I showed you an example script and the necessary changes to sudoers.

Last edited by Corona688; 01-09-2015 at 02:22 PM..
 

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sulog(4)							   File Formats 							  sulog(4)

NAME
sulog - su command log file SYNOPSIS
/var/adm/sulog DESCRIPTION
The sulog file is a record of all attempts by users on the system to execute the su(1M) command. Each time su(1M) is executed, an entry is added to the sulog file. Each entry in the sulog file is a single line of the form: SU date time result port user-newuser where date The month and date su(1M) was executed. date is displayed in the form mm/dd where mm is the month number and dd is the day number in the month. time The time su(1M) was executed. time is displayed in the form HH/MM where HH is the hour number (24 hour system) and MM is the minute number. result The result of the su(1M) command. A ` + ' sign is displayed in this field if the su attempt was successful; otherwise a ` - ' sign is displayed. port The name of the terminal device from which su(1M) was executed. user The user id of the user executing the su(1M) command. newuser The user id being switched to with su(1M). EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample sulog file. Here is a sample sulog file: SU 02/25 09:29 + console root-sys SU 02/25 09:32 + pts/3 user1-root SU 03/02 08:03 + pts/5 user1-root SU 03/03 08:19 + pts/5 user1-root SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root SU 03/14 08:31 + pts/4 user1-root FILES
/var/adm/sulog su log file /etc/default/su contains the default location of sulog SEE ALSO
su(1M) SunOS 5.11 6 Jun 1994 sulog(4)
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