On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one
>> command as root.
> One has to be very careful about giving out such access!
> root has much power.
Hence "sudo", w
The following suggestion should work for both problems and avoid the
difficulties I saw with the other solutions.
Write an executable (Korn shell) script owned by the owner of the
files to be examined (thus he should have all the access he needs)
which checks the user-id of its caller [effective an
Malcolm Kay wrote:
I am confused (or someone is).
On all the FreeBSD systems I have immediate access to the file
/etc/mail/aliases has the default permissions -rw-r--r--, in
other words is readable by anyone. On the other
hand /etc/mail/aliases.db is sometimes -rw-r- and sometimes
-rw-r--r
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:37 am, Jay Chandler wrote:
> Sorry for the dumb question this morning-- caffeine hasn't yet
> worked its wondrous magic upon my person.
>
> I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the
> aliases file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after
> the eventua
Robert Huff wrote:
Jay Chandler writes:
>> I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
>> file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
>> heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
>>
>
> Hand him some sheet
Jay Chandler writes:
> >> I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
> >> file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
> >> heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
> >>
> >
> > Hand him some sheets of printout
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Jay Chandler wrote:
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
Hand him some sheets of printout?
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:57 pm, Andy Greenwood wrote:
> I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario?
Perhaps, but that seems like a lot more effort to accomplish a relatively
easy job.
--
Kirk Strauser
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I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario?
On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:07 pm, Jay Chandler wrote:
> I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
> file. We'll grant him root access a few week
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:07 pm, Jay Chandler wrote:
> I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
> file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
> heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
You could configure sudo to gi
Jay Chandler wrote:
> I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
> file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
> heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
Hand him some sheets of printout?
Cheers,
Matthe
Duane Winner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't know if I am having a brainfart, something is different, or if
> I never had it right to begin with:
>
> I need to have a shared directory for apache web content:
>
> /usr/local/htmlstuff
>
> And a group, "htmlguys", and several users will be m
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