userdrake allowing user shutdown command w/o root

[Guest chansel]

Hi all,

for a server running mdk 10.1 I would like to allow a user, who doesnt have root privileges, to run the shutdown command, and some others (preferibly with specific parameters) I.e. I would like a user to allow the following commands

 

shutdown -r now

apachectl restart

mysql restart

 

without giving him/her the right to run other commands.

 

I could also imagine that, once the user logs in, a simple script in bash gives him these choices and not more (but am not sure how to approach this)

 

I usually dont do Linux administration but this time I have to.

 

Hope someone can help

 

Moved from Networking by Qchem

[theYinYeti]

Never before did I see such a perfectly tailored usage example for sudo. sudo is a tool to give to chosen users the right to execute chosen commands, with chosen parameters, using chosen identities.

 

First set the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables to the path of a text editor you're comfortable with (pico, vi, emacs...)

 

In a terminal window, open "man sudo", and in another window, run "visudo", which will in turn open your text editor.

 

Yves.

[Guest chansel]

many thanks