Re: start / run a program only when logged in as root

[Hassan Aurag <aurag CRM UMontreal CA>]

 Ok,

 Linuxconf does allow you to add privileges to normal users. It is actually well done. For some reason however, the stock RedHat linuxconf won't do that. 


 If you get it from linuxconf's web site, it will allow you to change some user's privilege's, so that user foo with uid something else would run it, then it was him for password (his not root). Now, if user foo tries to do something only root can because you decided so, then it will ask for root password.

 Now, even with RedHat's stock linuxconf you can still use web-access and this way any user with enough linuxconf privileges can run it.

> 
> 
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote:
> > linuxconf will not start if your not logged in as root.
> > same with rpm won't run without being root.
> Being a SuSE user ( shudder *grin*) I don't have linuxconf.
> Tell me, does it run for say user toor ( uid 0) ?
> It would be anal if it didn't run for all uid 0 users
> Or at least lower privallage users but had rights to change somethings..
> 
> > 
> > What is involved (details) of how to require the program to be executed only as
> > root.  Currently this program runs under any user but that is not ideal since
> > it'll probably screw it up.
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