Re: [leafnode-list] Multiple NNTPHOST sources

[Jeff Grossman <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 7/30/02 11:13 AM, Mike Graham at mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 01:04 pm, you wrote:
> 
>> I use a program called sudo.  You can find a mirror of the homepage
>> at http://sudo.stikman.com.  I can then run fetchnews from any
>> account I wish to allow access to the program.
> 
> Sudo is included with Mandrake 8.2, which I run, but I have yet to
> get a handle on that config script format.  Geez.  I've tried about 20
> different combinations of
> 
> mike    ALL=/usr/sbin/fetchnews    ALL
> 
> with NOPASSWD thrown in here and there, and even when sudo -l tells me
> that yes, I *can* run /usr/sbin/fetchnews, if I try
> sudo /usr/sbin/fetchnews
> I still get an error telling me that I can't run it.  So far, it's
> easier to just su every time.  8-/

Here is the line I use for Sudo:
jeff    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews

Try that and see if it works.

Jeff
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Jeff Grossman (jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)


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