[aclug-L] Re: starting pppd by a normal user

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Before 7am On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Jeff wrote:

> > if you only wanted a user, 'gina' to be able to do (for example)
> > "pppd and killall pppd" commands, how would you phrase the 'sudoers'
> > command line?
> 
> Here's mine:
> 
> schaller ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/ppp ?*
> 
> The "?*" is so that I can give an argument to 'ppp' (like 'start' or
> 'stop').  You need to put the full path of the command that they're
> going to run, so 
> 
> schaller ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/killall pppd

So to put that all coherently together:

gina ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/killall ppd,/usr/local/bin/ppp ?*

(or wherever you put the pppd/ppp script)

You can change (ALL) to (root), too.  It's who they can run the
command as (by default root).  The NOPASSWD is handy for a home
system.  If it asks for a password on the 2nd command, put a NOPASSWD:
before it, too.

-jeff, slightly more awake
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