On 02/07/2013 03:54 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > 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 >> >> > > Please do not top-post [0]
the example you gave me looks correct, nevertheless : cat /home/admin/myscript.sh #!/bin/bash mkdir /root/test chmod 755 /home/admin/myscript.sh just to be sure: chmod 700 /root chown root /root cat /etc/sudoers | grep admin admin ALL = NOPASSWD: /home/admin/myscript.sh as user admin ls -l /root ls: cannot open directory /root: Permission denied sudo ./myscript.sh && echo $? 0 one more time : sudo ./myscript.sh mkdir: cannot create directory `/root/test': File exists as root, ls -l /root | grep test drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 7 16:07 test [0] http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F 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/5113c430.2080...@biotec.tu-dresden.de
