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

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, j m wagle wrote:

> Jeff:
> thanks for the info... I got sudo downloaded, installed and working,
> only....
> 
> I made my users ALL=(ALL), 
> 
> 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

for the other one.

-jeff
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