Shell Programming and Scripting

Hiya,
I want to allow some users to copy all filenames of a specific filetype, to a limited directory.

3+ users: need to be able to copy(as root) any *.war file to /usr/local/tomcat/current/webapps/

I tried the following...

Code:

dmurphy         huskar=/tmp/who.sh,/bin/cp [A-z]*.war /usr/local/tomcat/current/webapps/[A-z]*

but it didn't work out so well. I keep getting the error below.

Code:

[1650]#[dmurphy@huskar:/usr/local/tomcat/current/webapps]$ sudo cp /stg/dmurphy/blah.war .

Sorry, user dmurphy is not allowed to execute '/bin/cp /stg/dmurphy/blah.war .' as root on huskar.

What am I doing wrong?

Going by how I interpret it, I'd say the user is only allowed to copy a file from the current directory to /usr/local/tomcat/current/webapps/, and even that only if the full directory path is used. Eg,

Code:

cp test.war /usr/local/tomcat/current/webapps/test_1

is valid, while

Code:

cp ../test/test.war ../../usr/local/tomcat/current/webapps/

is not.

sudo tries to match the command line as closely as possible, and doesn't care whether or not you're already in that directory, as it won't discern between a directory and a regular option.

hrm.. this didn't seem to work much better.

In this case, I may just use tomcat manager and allow the user access to manage tomcat so he can deploy the war's.

I'll keep playing around and see if I can get it working.