[TriLUG] Help with setuid C wrapper script

[Clay Stuckey]

You could also modify the group ownership of the files to be read and put your user in that group. 

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On Oct 10, 2010, at 11:11 AM, "Adam Jennings" <agjennings at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it always going to be tail?
> 
> You can add a specific command in the sudoers file:
> 
> <user> ALL =(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tail [a-zA-Z0-9_-]*
> 
> That should let them run any tail command with arguments or something
> similar.
> 
> 
> Adam Jennings
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> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Clay Stuckey <cstuckey at govsg.com> wrote:
> 
>> It works the same. Google sudo tutorial. If you need specific syntax, I can
>> look it up. Trust me, this is a good way to achieve your goal.
>> 
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>> Clay Stuckey
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>> cstuckey at govsg.com
>> claystuckey at gmail.com
>> 
>> On Oct 10, 2010, at 10:51 AM, "Ron Kelley" <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Appreciate the info, but this is not what I want.  I don't want the user
>> added to the wheel group.  I just want a single user to be able to tail the
>> /var/log/messages (and other log) files.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Ron
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 10, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Clay Stuckey wrote:
>>> 
>>>> %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
>>>> 
>>>> Add the user to the wheel group. This gives all root commands. You may
>> consider restricting their access to the specific commands.
>>>> 
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>>>> Clay Stuckey
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>>>> claystuckey at gmail.com
>>>> 
>> 
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