[Darth Klique]

What is the sudoers list and why is it used?


and if anyone has the time can you IM me i have some more questions...please..thanks in advance

[jplatt39]

First do a "man sudoers". That will tell you about the sudoers file. In essence, the less you do as root, the less chance malware has to use the account to do nasty things with it. That is why Ubuntu disabled the root account and usually forces you to access root privileges through the program sudo (though you can get a root prompt by typing "sudo su"). Obviously not everyone can or should have root privileges, unless everyone for a given computer is one or two users. /etc/sudoers lists the people who have permission to run root commands. Thus in my sudoers file the relevent section looks like this:

# User privilege specification
<user> ALL=(ALL) ALL
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

Replace <user> with the obvious user name. And the three ALLs tells the system what privileges I get. Sudo actually doesn't have much to do with Apache, per se, except you need root privileges to do most things with Apache.

[halovivek]

please visit www.linuxquestions.org
you will find the answer there

[tata]

Obviously not everyone can or should have root privileges, unless everyone for a given computer is one or two users. /etc/sudoers lists the people who have permission to run root commands.
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[corporate111]

you have to upload the file (cpanel can do that)
you have to put it in a directory that permits cgi or pl (not all directories do!)
you have to chmod the security on the file to permit it to run ( I think cpanel can do this too)

... then it can be run from apache!

[iqbal]

unless everyone for a given computer is one or two users. /etc/sudoers lists the people who have permission to run root commands.....
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