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Hi All,

I am trying to make use of Runas_Alias feature of sudoers. Some how I am not able to. Hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance.

I want the script /app2/run to be run as user "operator" when executed by the user engg. The /app2/run is just a sample script with "id" command in it for testing purpose. Anyways, here is the contents

Code:

$ cat run
#!/bin/ksh
echo "-----------------------------------------------"
id
echo "-----------------------------------------------"

In /etc/sudoers, I have the following entry

Code:

#
Runas_Alias OP=operator
engg         ALL =  (OP) NOPASSWD: /app2/run

I executed it using the -u option but no luck. I also tried giving the uid instead of username.

Code:

$ sudo -u operator ./run
sudo: unable to execute /app2/run: Permission denied

Is there anything I am doing wrong?

Here is my unix box version

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux 2.6.21 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Normal sudoers works, I mean if I have entry like

Code:

engg         ALL =  NOPASSWD: /app2/run

And on execution

Code:

$ sudo ./run
-----------------------------------------------
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),4(adm)
-----------------------------------------------

Thank You,
Ahamed

Figured out the problem.

The user "operator" didn't have permission to execute the script /app2/run and hence the issue. When the proper permission was give for the user "operator", it worked.

regards,
Ahamed.