Red Hat / Fedora :: Allow Non-root Users To Install/uninstall/configure Softwares?
Jul 1, 2010
When I try to start MySQL and httpd as a non-root user, I get error messagesstating that the user does not have permissions to start the services.I have checked the permissions of mysqld and httpd in /etc/init.d .. both of the files have rwxr-xr-x permissions.When I add the line%groupname ALL=(ALL) ALL in /etc/sudoers, I am able to run the services using sudo.How do I allow non-root users to install/uninstall/configure softwares and start/stop services ?I have tried with
SUI=/usr/bin/sudo -i, /bin/su
SOFTWARE=yum
%groupname ALL=(ALL) SOFTWARE, !SUI
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Dec 14, 2010
Is there any way to grant access to non root users to use some commands like reboot and date and some other commands that root user can work with .I tried chmod on their binaries and added them to root group but nothing happened.
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Jul 4, 2010
The normal user is now in the sudoers group. How can i allow it to install programs using it's own password rather than having to know the super-secret Root-Users password?
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Jan 18, 2011
How can i see history of all sudo users and all root users in fedora 13 ? history command only shows one users history ?
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Apr 7, 2011
I'm going to set up an Ubuntu computer for my family. They asked for it, I didn't push them. But I know that they don't like passwords.
So my plan is to make an admin account which is in the sudoers group and then make induvidual accounts for the users. But I also want them to be able to install apps.
So I wonder if it is possible to set the computer so that they can use the software center. What is the best method to do this? The apps mustn't be installed system-wide.
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Dec 28, 2009
I have a non-super user on my box which I'd like to give it MOUNT and UMOUNT permissions but I don't know how.For example purposes, the user name is "USER".I don't want to make it into a SuperUser, just give it rights to be able to issue the MOUNT and UMOUNT commands at the terminal.
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Jun 10, 2010
when users login in kde4 it shows kstartconf4 not found or failed error code 127. for both suse 11. 1 and suse 11.2 but kde3 works well I removed .kde etc it still failed
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Feb 1, 2011
I downloaded the lastest x86 stable release of openfiler and installed it on VBOX durring the install I selected to manually do the partitions and added a
/boot
swap (x2 ram)
/
Partition scheme. I selected DHCP client on the network configuration. Now from what I understand once I have done that I should be able to point my browser to https:<IP>:446 and login as root and configure everything within the GUI. But when I log in there is nothing to configure. My host system is Ubuntu x86_64 4GB Ram amd dual core processor.
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Sep 9, 2009
i am using fedora 7. i want that, users other than root should not be able to shutdown the system, i had already changed the mode of /sbin/shutdown to -rwxr-w--(750)
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Apr 7, 2010
I created 3 partitions on my usb stick, one is vfat, one ist ntfs and one is ext4.And i formated them like this:
Code:
mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdg1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdg2
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Mar 28, 2011
I spent some time programming a useful script which presents the user with a UI of all the samba/W2K8 servers and shares on the domain and they check off the shares and the script maps them. The script can only be run as root because mount doesn't allow users to execute. I was asked to modify the script to allow non-root users similar features. I was able to get this working by running the commands:
Code:
# chmod +s /sbin/mount.cifs
# chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs
Can someone please explain to me what the 's' option means? The man pages only go as far as to say that it allows for setting suid but I don't really know understand that means or what the implications are by doing this. In a perfect world I would like to create a security group and add users into that group and then grant that group permission to run mount.cifs/umount.cifs rather than making such a drastic global change to a core binary. how I might go about granting members of a group permission to run hand-selected commands like mount.cifs?
Post added at 07:07 PM Previous post was at 04:40 PM Ok, I read up on the /etc/sudoers man page and I think I have a more elegant solution to this problem of user mountable samba shares. I restored my mount.cifs back (chmod -s /sbin/mount.cifs) and I used visudo to grant the access.
Code:
%smbusers ALL=NOPASSWD:NOEXEC:/sbin/mount.cifs,/sbin/umount.cifs
This allows any users in the smbusers group to run mount.cifs/umount.cifs with sudo but without being prompted for a password.
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May 15, 2011
how to install new softwares in linux
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Jan 16, 2011
my friend does not have a internet connection, he require vlc (to watch movies) and g++(as c++ compiler). how he can install these softwares in his pc offline??
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Mar 31, 2010
I am new to Ubuntu and need help. I have been using windows but now I want a change this is why I have also installed ubuntu 9.10 in my pc using wubi with win7. I like it a lot.
For now, I do not have internet connection and when I go to the software center it requires an internet connection for software installation.
Is is possible if I can download softwares for ubuntu from any computer and then install them onto my PC?
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Apr 5, 2010
Recently i installed kubuntu. i tried to install opera,chrome but i got error messages like dependency not satisfiable :libgconf 2-4
i'm new to ubuntu
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Feb 24, 2011
i hav installed ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex using image file from dvd..i hav mounted dat image file and installed ubuntu but while updating or installing it is showing the folowing error..how to get rid of these error..
Could not download all repository indexes
The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct.
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Jan 14, 2009
I want to uninstall Ubuntu and then install F10 but I cannot get any info on how to achieve the former.
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Feb 6, 2011
why is grub2 not in fedora 14 ? Is there any way to uninstall grub and install grub2 on fedora 14 ?
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Jul 7, 2011
i always wanted to ask this question is that in windows if we install any program or software ...it is by default stored in c://program files/<package name> but in linux specially in fedora i have installed many apps and compilers ..bt dont know were it got installed were the softwares are getting installed by default in f14 ?
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May 23, 2011
I was trying to compile a new (stable) kernel and got an error when I tried "make xconfi packages and uninstalling 81 packages (will attatch pix once home). I'm using Fedora14 with KDE packages and uninstalling 81 packages. I'm using Fedora14 with KDE so much stuff to get qt-devel?
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May 26, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 , but after updating ubuntu using update manager, I am unable to install software using software Centre.When I click install button the software centre does nothing. Update manager concluded
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Apr 13, 2011
How to update all softwares(rpms) through internet in rhel 5? give the detailed description
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Jun 3, 2011
About 3-4 years ago I installed a new harddrive in my computer (XP Pro) and moved the old system disk drive to be secondary. I installed Grub and partitioned it in half. I installed Fedora on one partition and installed XP on the other. Now I want to keep the XP and replace the Fedora with another Linux like Ubuntu or Mint to try them out. I am not sure what I need to do to replace the Fedora and keep XP. Could someone give some idea how this would be done? I don't remember exactly how I did it at the time or what tools I had used or what I will need.
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Dec 19, 2010
I am a new user of FEDORA, would like to know how I can install software such as Canon Camera Software, Microsoft Encarta etc provided on CDs and DVDs into Fedora.
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Jun 24, 2011
I have been a regular user of Linux and have never faced a problem like this one, after I installed Linux Fedora 14 on my laptop. After installation, almost all the softwares that I was earlier using with the earlier version of Fedora are stopping immediately on starting and exitting with a fatal error. eg. when I try to run paraview, it immediately closes after giving some fatal error. Similar is the case with gambit, tecplot and mayaVi softwares.With my earlier version of Fedora, I was not facing any problem. But since I installed Fedora 14, I am facing this problem. I even tried by downloading and installing latest version of paraview and mayaVi from the net, but the latest versions also on starting give the same error : fatal error, and exit the program.
The softwares I mentioned immediately close indicationg a fatal error. The following error messages appear in the console after abrupt shut down of softwares with fatal error :
Output of /var/log/message file:
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Mar 27, 2011
Ubuntu 10.04 32 bitsvsftpd 2.3.4 installed from sources
Code:
# cat vsftpd.conf
listen=YES
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Mar 27, 2011
Ubuntu 10.04 32 bitsvsftpd 2.3.4 installed from sources
Code:
# cat vsftpd.conf
listen=YES
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Jun 18, 2010
I configured FTP server on Fedora 7.0 . I create different users with different password. I also create seprate directory for each FTP user. All are working . When I use filezilla for connecting that FTP site I can access all the directory on that server.
Now I want to configure that no any FTP user can access other FTP users directory or any other directory in server machine . What I do for this .
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Aug 7, 2010
how to configure samba share that users from ip pool (for example 192.168.1.200-210) have accest without login and rest users form ip pool (192.168.1.2-199 and 192.168.1.211-254) have to past autorization.
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Mar 3, 2011
I have downloaded a package when i have logged in with a user that is not root. I download the package and it is under the folder "Downloads". When i try to unzip the package it sägs that the user does not have the priveliges to run the command. When i change to the root with the command "su -" i cannot see the package to unzip it from the root user prompt. What shuold i do?
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