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Re: Anything against set suid amflush?

2003-02-07 14:20:26
Subject: Re: Anything against set suid amflush?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:44:38 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 12:59pm, Riccardo Parola wrote

> To keep it short, I want a regular user to be able to run amflush without 
> logging as a more privileged user (I'm even thinking about putting an Icon on 
> their desktop to do that :) )

This is exactly the type of situation sudo was made for.  Give certain 
people the ability to "sudo su amanda -c "amflush <CONFIG>"".

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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