[Eug-lug] Sudoers question

Martin Kelly aomighty at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 14:56:08 PDT 2007


Hmm... that didn't work...syntax error. But yes, that's the kind of 
thing I want.

Alan wrote:
>> What should I put in my sudoers file so that I can run any command as if
>> I were root with a password and a few other commands as root without a
>> password?
>>
>> Pretty much, I'd like to have full sudo access but be able to reboot and
>> poweroff my computer without a password.
>>
>> Currently, I have:
>> martin ALL = (ALL) ALL
>>
> 
> I didn't actually double check this, but it goes something like this:
> 
> ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/halt
> 
> Keep in mind that this would let anyuser on any host reboot the machine.
> You'd want to change the first column to martin, to make it so only that
> user can shutdown the machine.
> 
> -ajb
> 
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