Re: set effective user to root

On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:48:46 +0100, Robert Hull wrote:

On Monday 05 Jun 2006 19:15, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED
<m_d_berger_1900@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:

On FC4:

I wrote a utility to be executed at the command
line that is owned by root and kept in /usr/bin ,
and intended to be executable by all.

The utility reads and writes a file that is
accessible only by root.

A normal user wants to use the utility.
How can I do this?

man sudo

Thanks for this. The other solution looked simpler
and solved the present problem. This will probably
be useful in the future.
Mike.

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