[ale] Sudo use in script

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Gary MacKay wrote:

> I presume it goes against all security measures, but I'll ask anyway. I
> need a way for a script that runs as a user to be able to issue a "kill
> -HUP xxx' command. I've entered the user's name in the /etc/sudoers
> file, but that has a time limit thing. Is there any way to do this?

# visudo

and add

User_Alias	QMAILVIRUS=user

QMAILVIRUS	ALL=NOPASSWD:/path/to/script


would be one way to do it.

later,
chris


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