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Old 07-29-2009
Need to change permissions
Hi everyone,

There are couple of users of which i need to give 2 of the users admin rights so that they are able to run the administration commands like "zoneadm" and locale.
When logged in as root i am obviously able to do that.please suggest any way by which the other 2 user's permissions can be changed so that they too are able to run the above commands.
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 07-29-2009 at 11:29 AM..
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Old 07-29-2009
MySQL
Hello sankasu,
You have to do this:
  1. Open a root terminal
  2. type visudo
  3. Add this code:
    Code:
    user ALL=(ALL) ALL

    at the end of the file
  4. Save and exit
Where is user use the name of the user that you want to gave root privileges, but if you want to add an user that have root privileges you can type this in the terminal:
Code:
sudo adduser username admin

You can find more at: Giving root permission to a user - Ubuntu Forums

Thanks,
Nathan Paulino Campos
# 3  
Old 07-29-2009
Run this command:

man sudo

It will tell you how to give them superuser privileges by adding them to /etc/sudoers - once they are added they can then run sudo -s to switch themselves to root.
# 4  
Old 07-29-2009
Please note that doing the above will allow the user to do anything as root. This may not be what you want.

If you wish to restrict access to only certain commands via sudo, you can try to add something like the following line via visudo:

Code:
user ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/ls, /usr/sbin/zoneadm, /other/path/bin

Read the manfiles for sudo and sudoers. The sudoers manpage will explain in detail how to grant access to users or groups of users.
 
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