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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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