Allow a user to run a single command with root privileges

Thomas Eisenbarth

January 25, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

It's that simple to allow one of your Linux users to run a single command as UID 0:

sudo visudo
Add the line below to allow user 'deploy' to run /usr/bin/bundle with root privileges

deploy  ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/bundle

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License for source code

Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2011-01-25 19:04)