alton@CIT.HMC.PSU.EDU (Alton Brantley) (04/19/91)
Archive-name: unix/admin/sudo/1991-04-15 Archive-directory: boulder.colorado.edu:/pub/sa-book/sudo/ [128.138.240.1] Original-posting-by: alton@CIT.HMC.PSU.EDU (Alton Brantley) Original-subject: Re: advice needed Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) > > I have been running backups on our 930 using a > crontab. It is time, however to turn the machine over > to the operators for daily maintenance. How can I > give limited privileges to operators to run such commands > as mount,umount,fsck,backup, etc.? Any and all help > would be appreciated. Thank you. Tony > You need the routine known as "sudo" which allows you to give users the capability of executing subsets of commands normally only enabled for the superuser. The etiology of the name comes from the UNIX command "su," which is used to change to superuser. The command was originally published in one of the UNIX administration books and has since appeared on a number of bulletin boards. I suggest you look for the program via "archie," the ftpable database program at quiche.cs.mcgill.ca. Telnet to there, login as "archie," and then follow the directions. B. Alton Brantley, Jr alton@cit.hmc.psu.edu The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Penn State College of Medicine Hershey, PA USA 17033 -- comp.archives file verification boulder.colorado.edu total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 53 786 Sep 27 1989 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root 53 323 Mar 27 1990 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root 53 2291 Sep 27 1989 clrusr.c -rw-r--r-- 1 root 53 1571 Sep 27 1989 sudo.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 53 8215 Mar 27 1990 sudo.c found sudo ok boulder.colorado.edu:/pub/sa-book/sudo/