On Tue, July 29 at 10:41 PM EDT "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>what i would like to do: >a php-based web-interface should be able to run some special system >commands in the name of another user, i.e. 'apache' needs to >'makemaildir /some/path' as 'exim'. > >how i tried this: >installed the sudo package and edited the sudoers file with visudo: > Defaults !lecture > Defaults !authenticate > Host_Alias LOCAL = localhost, debian2 > apache LOCAL=(exim) /usr/courier/bin/maildirmake >now i should be able to do something like > > sudo -u exim maildirmake /some/path >as 'apache', right? > >what happened then: > "Sorry, user apache is not allowed to execute > '/usr/local/bin/maildirmake /tmp/xx' as exim on debian2." >that's not what it's supposed to do :/ > >now where's the bug? I note that two different commands are referenced... maybe an oversight? /usr/courier/bin/maildirmake /usr/local/bin/maildirmake maybe if you path it out explicity in sudoers? HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
