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Old 01-08-2011
Run chage as not root ?
Hello,

Running Debian lenny.
Is there any way to run
Code:
$ chage --expiredate some_date user1
chage: Permission denied.

as not root user inside script ?

I really need to do this, I could grant whatever group membership to running user, setuid bit or whatever is needed ?
(I do not want to do su and supply plain root password inside the script)

thanks
Vilius
# 2  
Old 01-08-2011
Use sudo. /etc/sudoers allows you to specify the use of specific command by a specific user. Read the sudo info page, it has examples.
Code:
sudo chage [options] username

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vilius
# 3  
Old 01-08-2011
Use su command!!!!
# 4  
Old 01-08-2011
If it were Solaris 10 he could use pfexec, by setting a profile.
# 5  
Old 01-08-2011
Ok, thanks sudo does the job!

Vilius
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