Majordomo and sudo

Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 10:56:35 -0300 (ADT)
From: David Murdoch <murdoch@csuite.ns.ca>
To: csuite-setup@chebucto.ns.ca
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On Sun, 16 May 1999, James R. Hay wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Well, my problems with majordomo, or at least setting up mailing lists
> from within csuite, now seem to boil down to a problem with
> sudo.  The question is, what is the problem.  When I use visudo in
> CS_ROOT/admin-bin to edit and save the file below it will complain that
> the aliases were corrected for each of the command aliases.
> 
> I can't see anything wrong with the entries but they definiitely don't
> work.  I got around the problem temporarily by putting in a user alias:
> 
> csuite		ALL=ALL
> 
> which worked but I noticed that the screen wasn't clearing properly when a
> new page was displayed.  I don't know if that was related or not.  
> 
> Any suggestions how to attach this?
> 
> Below is the sudoers file which was generated when I installed CSuite.  
> 
> TTFN,
> Jim.
> 
> James R. Hay			jim@clublibertel.qc.ca
> Technical Co-ordinator		
> Club Libertel de Montreal	jrhay@haya.qc.ca
> 
> 
> --------
> #
> # $Id: sudoers.in,v 1.3 1998/01/09 16:26:14 landon Exp $
> # Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Chebucto Community Net Society
> # This file is part of Chebucto Suite.  Use is governed by the terms
> # laid out in the file COPYRIGHT.
> 
> # template version 1.0
> 
> ## sudoers - control file for sudo
> 
> # Note: 'traceroute' and 'host' are not currently "supported" in the
> # CSuite distribution.  However, the system administrator should be
> # aware that these tools can be easily installed and can be very
> # valuable.  They are pretty network intensive, which is why a mundane
> # user should not be able to run them.
> 
> #
> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root or
> # with sudo-edit.
> #
> 
> Cmnd_Alias	MLIST=/usr/local/csuite/admin-bin/mkmdml,/usr/local/csuite/admin-bin/updmdml
> Cmnd_Alias	VIEWDISK=/usr/local/csuite/bin/cs_quota,/bin/ls,/usr/bin/du
> Cmnd_Alias	EDQUOTA=/usr/sbin/edquota
> Cmnd_Alias	HOST=/usr/sbin/traceroute,/usr/bin/host
> Cmnd_Alias	MODEM=/usr/local/csuite/lib/zapline,/usr/local/csuite/admin-bin/port
> Cmnd_Alias	PRIV=/usr/local/csuite/lib/sudo-edit,/usr/local/csuite/admin-bin/priv-edit
> #
> Host_Alias	THISHOST=clublibertel.qc.ca
> #
> # Group Alias Specification
> %wheel		THISHOST=PRIV,HOST,MLIST,VIEWDISK,EDQUOTA,MODEM
> %csuite		THISHOST=PRIV,HOST,MLIST
> %cs_ipadm	THISHOST=VIEWDISK,EDQUOTA
> %cs_adm		THISHOST=PRIV,MLIST
> %cs_tech	THISHOST=MODEM,EDQUOTA,VIEWDISK,HOST
> %cs_help	THISHOST=VIEWDISK
> %csuite		OTHERHOST=PRIV
> #
> # User specifications follow

Do you have any user specifications? They would be in the format
murdoch         CCN=VIEWQUOTA,SU_EDIT,DELETE_FORWARD,MKMDML,UPMDML,EDQUOTA
norman          CCN=VIEWDISK,HOST
etc...

Regards,
David Murdoch CET
--
     HRM Regional Community Access Project (CAP) Coordinator, 
     Operations Manager and Technical Coordinator, Chebucto Community Net
         http://www.chebucto.ns.ca - 902 422 2110 voice
	 http://www.csuite.ns.ca

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