I want to allow a user to reset people's faillog. When I go into the /etc/sudoers file and put this syntax in I still get an error stating : /var/log/faillog permission denied.
Here is what I put syntax:
%user ALL=/usr/bin/faillog,/var/log/faillog
I've looked everywhere but I can't find where to change the default box for incoming mail, or am I on the wrong track. It's a nuisance having to change folders and I can't configure wastebin to empty on exit.And I can't get kmail to import from evolution. Do I have to go to the evolution storage and do it manually, and if so, how do I do that?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedCustomer asked me to create a menu for linux he also asked me to do this: Open like a command like where a user can execute commands...so for this the users have sudo enabled. The code below works OK. But it has an issue when a command is executed but the command does not need sudo
Like for instance
Code:
cd /
sudo: cd: command not found
How can I allow a user to execute all commands when a command does not need sudo
Code:
echo -e "Press Control+C to finish"
#echo -e " "
while true;
do
read whichcmd?"Insert Command: "
sudo $whichcmd
done
Is possible (by root of course) to run a command from console, that will be executed on X-session owned by another user on the same linux box/machine ? Example: Can root open xclock for another local user logged into X11 ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write one script. Purpose of my script is that it will login to particular user and it will execute some set of commands.What I was trying....
#!/bin/bash
su - tom
ls -lrt
[code]...
I have a program(that is written by me) which need super user permission to execute it. But I need to let the normal users to execute it without using 'sudo ./executable' and just './executable'. how i can set the program to execute by the normal users without using 'sudo' or password prompting.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a question that i want to make a normal user to execute the commands which the root user is able to execute, say if i have a user named siru and when i logged in using siru i cannot run commands like tracert,nmap@loccalhost and all but i can run when i have logged into root account so my question is how to make siru to run the command tracert,nmap@localhost.I have even edited the .bash_profile of siru's home directory from
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
[code]...
is there anyway i can execute an application Hidden from the user?i used to do WinExec(Path, SW_HIDE) under windows, and now i do fork() + execv() but i dunno where to specifiy any values
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy program attributes (it uses semanage to change range): I'd like to ordinary user (bartek) can execute my program. I executed as root:
chmod u+s se_chmod4
so now my user can change his range in permissive mode by my program. My politic: In enforcing mode i can see attributes but when i want to excute i get:
How should look like my TE file that user (bartek) could execute my program (forget at moment about "semanage")?
When I confine a user myuser to the type user_u (or staff_u) with the SELinux instruction semanage login -d -s user_u myuser, this user cannot execute OpenOffice.
The error is :type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1302501686.474:8504): arch=40000003 syscall=192 success=no exit=-13 a0=0 a1=11bc60 a2=5 a3=802 items=0 ppid=12819 pid=12832 auid=4294967295 uid=505 gid=504 euid=505 suid=505 fsuid=505 egid=504 sgid=504 fsgid=504 tty=pts2 ses=4294967295 comm="soffice.bin" exe="/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin"
[code]....
I suppose the problem occurs because I installed the rpm from the OpenOffice repository, not the standard OpenOffice included in FC13. However I prefer to use the rpm version, because of some bugs in the FC13 OpenOffice version. How can I create a policy to allow the execution of libicuuc and other OpenOffice libraries by my confined user ?
I am using slackware 12.2 - 2gig ram - amd64 cpu - ati hd2400 graphics. I am trying to upgrade software in particular opera to 11.11. I am using a slackbuild script to create the package and this seems to work ok. The original opera package was installed in this way.however as soon as the new opera is installed either via upgradepkg or installpkg the user - whatever user - apart from root loses the ability to run any application including logging-in.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a nagios server monitoring around a 1000 hosts in our office. To make things easier, i've integrated apache into Active Directory for the website authentication. This works perfectly, however the Nagios website uses alot of CGI scripts to display information I get the message below when trying to show CGI scripts with an AD user. Local users work fine. 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access /nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi on this server. I tried adding the AD users to the cgi.conf file within Nagios (which works for local accounts) but it doesn't seem to work even with this change.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write a perl script which will give an interactive session to a user to execute command on the server. I have written a small script to do this :
Code: !/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Net::SSH::Perl;
my $host = '192.168.1.1';
my $username = 'user';
my $login_passwd = 'test123';
[Code]...
I am afraid to ask with so many things changing around in each new release.Where would one add a custom script to execute when logging and shutting down in into a user profile like /home/test or /root ?would this be rc.local?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi created a /tmp partition amd mounted it like this:" mount -o loop,noexec,nosuid,rw /usr/tmpDSK /tmp"
I know i can't execute things in /tmp now but is there a way to execute only one file and no more???
Is it possible to allow a group/user to execute a command, where one of the parameters of the command is a group as well? example that does not work as intended:
Code:
Cmnd_alias SU=/bin/su -l %group1 This example works sortof, it treats the "%group1" literally. I know I can list out the "/bin/su -l <eachuser>", but as you can imagine that is impractical. In this example, I want people in group2(not shown for brevity sake) to be able to su to someone in group1
how to execute csh in sh ie, if I have a script in csh syntax as , ( my.csh )
##################
set x = y
setenv xx YY
##################
And I have a sh script ( my.sh )
#####################
#!/bin/sh
I want to call here the my.csh in such a way that I have access to variables set by the
csh script
ie. echo $x $xx shoud work from sh ( main script )
######################
I have a two seperate files on my computer,
which execfile
/usr/local/bin/
/usr/bin/
so, i have two files with the same name in two different directories. How can I specify exactly which command to run?
There are many ways to execute a script (*.sh). But what is the best way to execute a script also what should be its location. So that it can be executed from anywhere in the shell. I don't want to execute them with ./*.sh.
View 8 Replies View RelatedTrying to run an executable, but it's not working for some reason:
Code:
I m trying to execute my file from with in vi. i m using following syntax esc :!<program-name> m i making any mistake as it is giving me an error.
My program is this:
#This program takes 3 Parameters from user namely name,address,phonenumber and store those details in detail.out file .
#To store output in only milind directory by doing this if we run this file within any directory the file get stored in milind directory only.
Downloading Virtual box, I saw a link with title All distributions on its home page:
VirtualBox-3.2.8-64453-Linux_x86.run
I have not downloaded it yet, I wanted to know how to execute it ? I've never seen a .run file before ! Does this mean this file is supposed to run on all distributions ?
ill have this question on the test maybe : In dir00 directory create files year01.txt, year02, ...year05.txt with January calendar for 2001-2005 years in it.-i'm lost. i execute this : cat | cal 01 2001 > year01.txt
View 12 Replies View RelatedI want to add 50 new users, not on the server yet I want to add them all to group Accounting - with 1 option, not user by user I want to setup a default password for them all, and have it say something like 'You must now change password or no access will be permitted' Any other options I also want to do once, not for each user?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am using mint 8 for a 2 weeks, I am noob to linux but I like Mint than any other linux distro which is great alternative to windows. I have a problem regarding password reseting.
1. My laptop automatically get logged in without asking user name and password.
2. I tried to change password for newly created user and root user using graphical way but it does not work.
2. I can perform administrator task using only OEM user which is default inbuilt user of mint.
How can make my laptop to ask password when mint get booted? How to change password for other users?
I am using the sudo command to log on locally as another user by the following command:
sudo -u theotheruser -s
or
sudo -u theotheruser sh
As I see it, this initiates a new shell with the mentioned other user.However, this doesn't load that users profile from his home directory.Is there a way to automatically read the users profile when login in with selected command? I am mostely interested in getting a working prompt when logged in.
I'm developing an application in which one user must run java software that I'm compiling as another user. I wanted to give user A permission to see the bin direcory of my workspace, which is in the home directory of user B. I was wondering how can this be done? I gave the bin direcotry full read/execute premissions, but since it's in my home directory user A can't navigate to it.
I know there are a few ways I could get around the problem but they arn't very elegant. I was wondering if there is a simple method for giving a user access to a specific directory without giving access to all the parent directories. I tried symbolic link but user A still can't access it, and a hard link to a directory isn't allowed in Linux. I don't feel like making a hard link to every single file in the bin directory, and I'm not sure that would work anyways, since every recompile overwrites them.
What is the difference between creating a "regular" user and creating a "system" user on Linux?
For example:
Code:
adduser john
Code:
adduser --system john
Similarly it seems there are normal groups and system groups. Doing an internet search and reading man pages does not give much information on the whole concept of system and regular user/group.
Is there a way to execute some command and then after the command completes utomatically reboot the system and then after the system reboots execute another command ? For example look at the sequence shown below(1) Execute command-1(2) After the command-1 in (1) is completed,reboot the system (3) Execute command-2(4) After execution of command-2 reboot the sytemIs there a way i can automate this process so that i need not reboot the system manually
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