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Re: I can't run sendmail normally



On Tue, 25 May 1999, Binand Raj S. wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:05:47PM +0530, anindya wrote:
> 
> > Can I give user anindya the rights to these
> > two commands.
> > 
> 
> This is because sendmail and other sysad related stuff lie in the
> directories /sbin or /usr/sbin (even though traditionally, there is a
> link to sendmail in /usr/lib). These directories are not in everyone's
> path by default. You can put these directories in your users' paths
> (edit /etc/profile to do this) and all should be alright (note that your
> users still won't be able to use many of the programs there, as most of
> the stuff in these directories need root permissions to work).

Apart from this, you will also set the suid bit of these files, for they
require root's priviledges to work. But the problem is that it will give
the right to execute these files to all the users on the system.

I have a related question. How do I give a user some priviledges of root??

Manas


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