How do I allow a normal user to update their machine via mintUpdate without also giving sudo permissions?
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How to allow user to use Mintupdate
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How to allow user to use Mintupdate
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muffin
Re: How to allow user to use Mintupdate
Hello,
I haven't tested this on Mint specifically, but generally you can use /etc/sudoers (using visudo) to specify which users can run which commands.
An entry along the lines of:
...should let alice run mintupdate with escalated privileges, without being prompted for a password.
As usual, the Arch wiki is good reading: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Configuration
- m
I haven't tested this on Mint specifically, but generally you can use /etc/sudoers (using visudo) to specify which users can run which commands.
An entry along the lines of:
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alice ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mintupdate
As usual, the Arch wiki is good reading: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Configuration
- m