Re: configure printers from non-root account via ssh

From: Colin McDonald (ce.mcdonald_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:06:16 -0500

I was just looking at that. Thanks for your suggestion.

cm
"tim wunder" <twunder@REMOVEcomcast.net> wrote in message
news:3sUJd.9$Py4.2656@news.abs.net...
> On 1/26/2005 3:16 PM, I believe that Colin McDonald wrote:
>
>> I have set up a user to login via ssh. I have configured the
>> .bash_profile
>> to use the program system-config-printer-tui. I want to restrict access
>> to
>> this application only. This program can only be run as root. I see
>> documentation out on the web on how to use a consolehelper but I don't
>> see
>> where to allow access to the specific user or how to modify the
>> consolehelper to do this.
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>
> Couldn't you use sudo to do this?
> sudo is fairly easy to configure and allows you to let certain users
> execute programs as root without giving them root's password.
> sudo can be configured to require a password (the user's, not root's) or
> not.
> # man sudo
> # man viduso
>
> HTH,
> Tim
>

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