UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi

I'm facing a situation where we need to restrict commandline access to Unix server. But there are some scripts that needs to be executed. I need to execute a script with double-click or something like that without having command-line access.
I appreciate your thoughts on this.

Regards,
Vijay

Hello...

There are plenty of web-writing-utilities and IDEs that will let you execute scripts with a click. You make them links and when the links are pressed, the result is the execution of a specific script. You can roll your own a little more too... With the pressed link, you call a perl CGI program (or something you write in some other language or IDE) that executes the specific script. It is a little more complicated than just a click unless you never use arguments in your command line, or at least never change them, Calling a program is just like naming a web page e.g. <a "href=http://www.bla.bla.com/programToRun.cgi">click to run utility X</a>

Of course a static list of utilities to execute is not very exciting and always a maintenance problem with you want to change things in your scripts. What you want can be done as a quick hack for a few staticly named scripts, or the beginning of a whole command and control system.

A possible way:

- Add a new user for this
- Install sudo
- Edit sudoers accordingly to your needs (ie. if root or some rights of another user is needed to execute those scripts)
- Have a desktop icon where those scripts are called with sudo in front.