[nflug] permission question

[John G. Boice]

anthonyriga wrote:
> I have on my Ubuntu Edgy Cisco vpn client. I created
> scripts to excute connect and disconnect the client.
> The scripts dont work because of sudo. How do I create
> a sudo group that give rights to run just the scripts
> without prompting for a password or is there a way to
> write the script as to not to as for the password? For
> ex here is the start script. Suggestion? 
> #!/bin/bash
> sudo /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start 
>
> Sent Using Ubuntu Linux Operating System Edgy 6.10
>
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Sorry for not directly answering your question.  But it's because of
stuff like this that I don't run Ubuntu as my main distro anymore.

What I used to do under Ubuntu is create a root password and just login
as root like a regular Linux system when I needed to do anything
admin-related.

IMO, sudo is a nice timesaver when you want to use it. But to set up a
Linux OS that only uses sudo seems stupid to me, so I learned to use
other distros that didn't irritate me.

You could setup a "root account"  like it says here and write your
scripts as root, no?
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_set.2Fchange.2Fenable_root_user_password


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