Allowing a user administrative tasks without roots password

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor at freemail.hu>:

> Panu Matilainen írta:
> > Quoting Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor at freemail.hu>:
> > 
> > 
> >>auth sufficient pam_localuser.so   # all local user
> >>
> >>or
> >>
> >>auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so USER ingroup printersettings
> >>		# certain users are in printersettings group
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > There once was even a GUI tool to do this included in some beta-release of
> RHL,
> > somewhere in 7.x days. Sadly it never made it to the final releases and
> hasn't
> > been resurrected in any form either (it was a QT app so I guess it didn't
> fit in
> > with the other RH config tools and was somewhat rough around the
> edges...)
> 
> I remember Linuxconf, it has several frontends
> and it was included in some RH releases...
> I looked at it's homepage, it's still maintained.
> http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/

Last I tried Linuxconf the capability stuff didn't work but that was a long long
time ago. Anyway I was actually talking about program called "kapabilities" made
specifically for this task, it just was never finished :(

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    - Panu -