sudo and privoxy
Rick Stevens
ricks at nerd.com
Thu Apr 9 17:14:08 UTC 2009
Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:04:42 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>> Frank Cox wrote:
>>> On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth wrote:
>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong??
>>> Add this to /etc/sudoers (using visudo)
>>>
>>> username ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/service privoxy restart
>>>
>>> Substitute the name of the user that you want to give this permission
>>> to for "username" in the above line.
>>>
>>> Now he/she can simply type "/sbin/service privoxy restart" at a
>>> commandline (or you can even hang it on an icon) and restart privoxy.
>> Correction, he/she MUST type "sudo /sbin/service privoxy restart".
>
> With that, I get :
>
> [tslg at Hbsk2 ~]$ sudo /sbin/service privoxy restart
> Stopping privoxy: [ OK ]
> Starting privoxy: Apr 08 18:55:24.929 Privoxy(b7fd56c0) Info: Privoxy
> version 3.0.10
> Apr 08 18:55:24.929 Privoxy(b7fd56c0) Info: Program name: /usr/sbin/
> privoxy
> [ OK ]
> [tslg at Hbsk2 ~]$
>
>
> Looks likely right to me; is it?
Sure does.
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