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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:04:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF0A415.8020007@libertytrek.org> (raw)

Hi all,

I'm guessing this is a sudo question, but I'm unfamiliar with the 
nuances of sudo (never had to use it before).

I have a new hosted VM server that I want to allow a user to be able to 
edit files owned by root, but without giving them the root password.

I already did:

/usr/sbin/visudo

and added the following line:

%sudoroot       ALL=(ALL) ALL

and made sure the user is in this group, but they still get an access 
denied error when trying to mv or cp files that are owned bu root.

What is the best way to do this? I'd really prefer to not give them the 
root password so they can su -...

Thanks,

Charles



             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-20 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-20 15:04 Tanstaafl [this message]
2011-12-20 15:13 ` [gentoo-user] Allow non root users to edit files owned by root? Michael Mol
2011-12-20 16:00   ` Florian Philipp
2011-12-20 17:03     ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-20 17:20       ` Florian Philipp
2011-12-20 18:20         ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 15:41     ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 15:46       ` James Broadhead
2011-12-20 16:51   ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-20 17:06     ` Michael Mol
2011-12-21  5:55     ` Walter Dnes
2011-12-21 19:07       ` Florian Philipp
2011-12-20 17:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-22 15:44   ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 18:00     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-22 18:53       ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 19:21         ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-22 19:33           ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 19:49             ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-22 19:42           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-22 19:36         ` Nikos Chantziaras

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