Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
On Saturday 28 January 2006 01:35 Jorge Almeida was like: > > I am still having to "sudo echo -n mem > /sys/power/status" and then to > > enter a password. What am I doing wrong? > > Did you edit /etc/sudoers? Example: > joeuser ALL = NOPASSWD: /your/command/here > Remember to edit the file

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Harald Arnesen
Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command > as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do > this, but I am not having any success. > > The command I want to execute as root is "echo -n mem > /sys/power

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 09:55, Robert Persson wrote: > I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as > root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, > but I am not having any success. > > The command I want to execute as root is "echo -n mem > /sys/p

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Robert Persson wrote: I created a bash script (/usr/local/bin/suspendtoram) like so: #!/bin/bash echo -n mem > /sys/power/status then set owner and group to root:root and made the script suid. However this doesn't work. The error message goes: /usr/local/bin/suspendtora

[gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Robert Persson
I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am not having any success. The command I want to execute as root is "echo -n mem > /sys/power/status". I created a bash script (/usr/local/bin/