Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <dis...@jpr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:12 PM
Subject: asroot and kill

> Hey there!  Teensie bit of help wanted...I am trying to assign a user
> the privilege to kill processes.  Unfortunately, I am not able to find
> such in the scoadmin utility (OpenServer 5).  Using asroot gets me
> "Sorry, not authorized to run kill."  I am not hugely familiar with
> this flavour of UNIX, and aren't able to really find useful help via
> Google.  Can someone please point me in the right direction?

> Thanks!
>  Tyler (tyler AT kinotox DOT com dot garbagetofoolspambots)

Did you man asroot?
It requires a few not obvious steps to set up a given command to be useable
by asroot and then allow a given user to use that command, but they are
described in man asroot pretty clearly.

I boiled the man page down to these 4 lines of shell script,
I actually tested this by cutting & pasting the 4 lines all at once and
pasting it right into a terminal, so the awk command is good. ;)

cp /bin/kill /tcb/files/rootcmds/kill
cp /etc/auth/system/authorize /tmp/a
awk -F : '{if($1=="root") print $0",kill";else print $0}' /tmp/a
 >/etc/auth/system/authorize
fixmog

now you can go into scoadmin account manager,
  highlight a user
  tab up to the users menu
  authorizations
  unselect "use system default..."
  on the right-hand side scroll all the way down and and hit Enter on kill
  tab to the ok button and save & get out

and now that user can run "/tcb/bin/asroot kill 23874"

/tcb/bin is not in users PATH by default. It is in roots path by default.
You could deal with the path a few ways. It's probably better to make a
symlink of asroot into /usr/bin or somewhere or just use the full path in
commands like above rather than add /tcb/bin to users PATH's since there is
other stuff in /tcb that's best left root only.

Brian K. White  --  br...@aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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