Re: allowing ordinary user (non-root) to run apt-get...dpkg...

2001-03-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:52:43AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > i suppose there are a number of solutions ... > > adding an appropriate group characteristic to > the executables and the places apt, dpkg write to > under /var and then adding users to the group... that won't do anything useful ever

Re: allowing ordinary user (non-root) to run apt-get...dpkg...

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i suppose there are a number of solutions ... > >adding an appropriate group characteristic to >the executables and the places apt, dpkg write to >under /var and then adding users to the group... > >setuidnot a good idea How about sudo? Cheers, -- Co

allowing ordinary user (non-root) to run apt-get...dpkg...

2001-03-19 Thread Walter Tautz
i suppose there are a number of solutions ... adding an appropriate group characteristic to the executables and the places apt, dpkg write to under /var and then adding users to the group... setuidnot a good idea some sort of server that runs on the host and receives requests for software a