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Re: Running commands as su instead of root



On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:58:55PM +0000, Miguel Estrada wrote:
> How do I configure NetBSD-4.0.1 so that all commands run only as root can
> be run as su, or even better, 'sudo'?

1.) If you user account is a member of the group "wheel" you should be
    able to run commands like this:

su root -c "shell command"

2.) "sudo" is available in package sources in "pkgsrc/security/sudo".

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/


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