Re: scripting inherited commands user rights

[Alex Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de>]

On 02/07/2013 02:10 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> i have got a /data folder where no one has rights accept user "root".
> and for some reasons or reducing my dependency i have created a script
> which include
> "mkdir" command
> 
> like this
> 
> mkdir /data/example
> 
> the script own by the user and have got rights 700 on the script file
> so that only that specific user can run the script however when the
> script ran it gives us this error
> "mkdir: cannot create directory `/data/example ': Permission denied"
> 
> i dont want to give any user  -w , -r and -x rights on the folder but
> what i want is that he can only create directory via that script only.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 

you can use sudo to run a command with elevated rights.

Regards,
Alex