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Re: [cobalt-users] I would like to run ping as nobody and root . How ?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] I would like to run ping as nobody and root . How ?
- From: Jan van Stekelenburg <janvs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Feb 7 03:51:04 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:16:56AM -0000, Utopia Research Dept wrote:
> I have chmod u+s /bin/ping but I don't really want all users to have access
> to ping.
> I idealy want root priv and nobody (for web users to run ping) and no other
> user .
>
[...]
Hello Martin,
You could create a new group for example, `pingppl' and put the accounts
in that group that are allowed to use ping, then chmod/chown ping so that
only the group you created is allowed to execute ping.
That should do the trick.
Kind regards, Jan.