Re: User Based Init
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:24:10AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> One can't start or stop anything that requires a port under 1024 (such
> as apache) without root permissions. You'll have to give them those, no
> other option.
>
> You do have the option to go with sudo, however. Sudo allows you to
> specify exactly which commands a user may or may not restart; you could
> say that a user might run commands of this type:
>
> /etc/init.d/apache .*
> <some editor> /etc/apache/httpd.conf
You could use authbind in order to require less privilege for this.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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