Re: basic sudo/sodoers question

[Rick Stevens]

On 07/11/2016 10:42 AM, Tod Merley wrote:
>  .. sounds like something to solve with Linux ownership of files,
> being
>  part of groups, and permissions.  Perhaps start here?
>  - https://www.linux.com/learn/understanding-linux-file-permissions 
>  
>  On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:13 AM, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  
>      Hi.
>  
>      I have two (2) users cat - dog
>  
>      user cat has access to all files in /cat, and the ability to run the
>      apps (*.php)
>  
>      i want to allow user dog to be able to run as user cat, and
>      therefore run the *.php in /cat
>  
>      As far as I can tell, this is a sudo/sudoers issue, where I should
>      be able to set up a user/group to run the apps with no passwd...
>  
>      so... I jumped into visudo, made the change to the sudo/sudoer file
>      (not sure what the file is actually called!).
>  
>      the change I made
>      cat ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /cat/*.* 
Try

	cat ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: /cat/

(whitespace and just a trailing "/" on the directory).

>  
>  
>      I then did a #su dog
>       whoami -- dog
>  
>      and as user dog...
>        sudo -u cat /cat/aa.php
>  
>      and got a passwd prompt for dog....
>  
>      so what did I miss/screw up....
>  
>      Thanks...
>  
>  
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