Re: Allow user to execute "repquota -g /"

[Ondrej Flidr <flidr@brandembassy.com>]

You can use sudo, just set /etc/sudoers (editable by command visudo) to 
allow that user(s) run this command as root.

Ondřej Flídr
Server Ninja
BrandEmbassy Ltd.
www.brandembassy.com

On 25.9.2014 12:03, Luigi Cirillo wrote:
> Hello, I need to allow an user to execute "repquota -g /" from a
> script without superuser permissions on debian Wheezy. The user cannot
> access to the file //aquota.group so I tried to create a group
> "quotarep" but the root cannot chown the file:
> ##############################
> chown root:quotarep //aquota.group
> chown: changing ownership of `//aquota.group': Operation not permitted
> ###############################
>
> I thinking to deploy a cron job to export the result of "repquota -g
> /" on a file but I don't think it is a good way.
> Do you know how I can solve this?
> Thank you