[ale] sudo tricks and hints

[savithari at gmail.com (Narahari 'n' Savitha)]

Friends:

I am trying to use sudo effectively.  The scenario is I have a box where I
can get super powers for the duration of a script running.  It works ok but
what I am found is that I can put a <userid> in the sudoers file with
permission to run any script(s) from a given folder.  But that requires me
to mod the sudoers file.  Is there any other mechanism that I can get
granted the superpowers for a brief while and then taken away from me.  I
really don't like tinkering with sudoers file.

-S
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