Thanks for the hint i have been going through couple of howtos but it is still not working same error i put this line at the bottom of the VISUDO still no luck
%ykhan ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/myscript when i run the script with user ykhan still give me the same error. would you please be kind enough and share a good howto or guide by example. that would be very helpful. Thanks On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Alex Mestiashvili <a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de> wrote: > On 02/07/2013 02:10 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> i have got a /data folder where no one has rights accept user "root". >> and for some reasons or reducing my dependency i have created a script >> which include >> "mkdir" command >> >> like this >> >> mkdir /data/example >> >> the script own by the user and have got rights 700 on the script file >> so that only that specific user can run the script however when the >> script ran it gives us this error >> "mkdir: cannot create directory `/data/example ': Permission denied" >> >> i dont want to give any user -w , -r and -x rights on the folder but >> what i want is that he can only create directory via that script only. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> > > you can use sudo to run a command with elevated rights. > > Regards, > Alex > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5113b21f.2070...@biotec.tu-dresden.de > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cagwvfmn4k5m0mrxuc+ezvzd4ua2hy4nh5v7mb2+wc1cjeek...@mail.gmail.com