Re: [opensuse-programming] non-privileged daemon executing root-only commands?

Hello, On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Per Jessen wrote:

I have a monitoring daemon that I would really prefer to run as non-root, but occasionally it will have to execute 'ipvsadm', which is root-only. I'm thinking this could be done with sudoers?

your_daemon_user localhost=(root) NOPASSWD:/sbin/ipvsadm -opt arg Or have a look at polkit. HTH, -dnh -- The first time I hear "I dropped my computer in the toilet" is the last support request I listen to at this job. -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-programming+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-programming+help@opensuse.org