Posts Tagged ‘sharing root permission’

Allow non root users to run root programs

When a user starts a command, it runs with the permissions of that user. What if you want to allow them to run some commands with root permissions? You can, and that’s called suid.So  SUID permission makes a script to run as the user who is the owner of the script, rather than the user who started it. You can set a command to be suid root with the chmod command. This will make it run as root even if [...]

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