20 Dec
2020
20 Dec
'20
11:53 a.m.
Dear Gene,
Am Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2020 schrieb Gene Heskett via tde-users:
editing /etc/sudoers to my understanding has no effect on 'su' because
the two are different things. I read this recently on debian-users, I
think.
HTH
Kind regards,
Stefan
> On the
permissions issue:
>
> Use sudo, basically the same as using sudo for yourusername to
> root, but replace root with yourusername and yourusername with
> amanada. And then get sudo to run without password.
>
> -
> https://www.golinuxhub.com/2013/12/how-to-give-permission-to-user
>-to -run/ - https://linuxhandbook.com/sudo-without-password/
This second URL showed me how to edit the sudoers file and add this:
amanda ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/opt/trinity/bin/dcop
But it still fails:
root@coyote:~$ su amanda -c "/opt/trinity/bin/dcop --user gene
--all-sessions kmail