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Top Forums Programming Running a script as root in the script Post 303007431 by rbatte1 on Thursday 16th of November 2017 12:12:08 PM
Old 11-16-2017
Well I can see that you have thought about what you want to achieve. Whilst we could organise to grant access to the specific powerful commands, the problem would then be that they could run them anytime, so i think you probably have it about right to only run the whole script as root. I presume you plan to expand it from a single choice later.

I notice that you don't have an audit trail in here to say who did what and when, just in case it goes wrong or needs to be shown. Whilst within the script if started as root through sudo, you can get the calling user as $SUDO_USER so you can write that in your message.



I hope that this helps, but I think have everything you need. Does it make sense or have I/we left you confused?



Robin
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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