Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:13:29 +0200 From: "Aijaz Baig" <aijaz.abaig@gmail.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>, tnelson@fudnet.net Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sudeors file not affecting user privileges Message-ID: <101a1afc0804071413r5c780432tcbf5f0e70fb4118@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200804071031.49628.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <101a1afc0804070654g7f4d09b6re3a8a6e928b0974b@mail.gmail.com> <200804071031.49628.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Hello, Well..thanks for the advice. However even after using a sudo to issue the command from the users account, I get the same error message as before which reads: *sudo: /usr/local/etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440 *Well..what exactly is mode 0644 and how can I make sure that my users who have been permitted to excute this command are in mode 0440? What exactly are these modes and what do they mean? Will something like *chmod 0440 sudoers* work to solve this issue? I am a bit wary of experimenting with this so Id rather ask before doing it? Hope to hear from you guys Best Regards, Aijaz Baig On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:31 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Monday 07 April 2008 09:54:24 am Aijaz Baig wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like 'normal users' to be able to issue the shutdown command. > For > > that reason I modified the 'sudoers' file and I uncommented the last > line > > which now reads:* * > > *%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now* > > > > However that didn't work. Then I thought > > maybe the users above refer to some user defined group called 'users. So > I > > first created a group called 'users' and added 'masud' (one of my users) > to > > that group. Still No luck.. > > > > Then I read a bit about how does one actually add stuff to that file and > > added(appended) the following to the file:* masud ALL=/sbin/shutdown -h > > now* > > > > Well..nothing yet..I always log in as as 'masud' and try to see if > shutdown > > works (by issuing *shutdown -h now* from his account) and I get > > */sbin/shutdown: > > Permission denied > > * > > Well..How do I go about it... > > > > Please do let me know. > > > > Hope to hear from you soon, > > You need to use 'sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now'. Sudoers is used by sudo and > you > have to use sudo to invoke the command for sudeors to have an effect. > > -- > John Baldwin >
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