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On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 15:29, Robert Ullrich wrote: |
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> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:44:26 -0500 |
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> Michael Ihde <ihde@××××.edu> wrote: |
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> > Why not use sudo? Then you can just |
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> > # sudo <command_to_run> |
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> > in your case |
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> > |
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> > # sudo emerge system |
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> > |
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> The regular user (like "rob") has to be in the group "portage" to emerge things. But I |
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> won't put any user in that group. The user-account "emerge" is for administrating the |
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> local software so any admin who knows about that account should be able to emerge. |
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> But I don't want that admin to login anonymously with "emerge". He should be named |
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> first and then (only) su-ing to "emerge" instead. |
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> > If you don't want to run emerge as root, then you can change the sudoers |
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> > file to have it run under your "emerge" user. Finally, to disable |
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> > logins put an asterix in the second field of the shadow file for the |
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> > emerge user. Then no one can login as there is no password and only |
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> > root can su to the "emerge" user. |
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> Not everybody knows the root-password ;-) |
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That's the point of sudo - they don't _need_ to know the root password. |
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Users x, y and z can all run emerge using their own password, which is a |
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(default) option in sudoers. |
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Cheers |
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Andrew |
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