Give normal user access to an init.d script

[Ralph Janke]

Hello,

I am not sure if this idea satisfies your requirements. However,
I think what you mean is, that you want to give this user only
the permission to start this particular service (shoutcast), and
don't give him full root access via sudo, is that right?

If so, you can do this still via sudo. Sudo allows you to configure
this particular user in a way that the obtained privileges only
allow the starting of the shoutcast script.

if you look at the configuration man page for sudoers there are some
examples how to do that.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1132821 has also some good
explanations how to do this.

Hope this helps,
Ralph (txwikinger)

Lox wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a shoutcast server running. I launch it using an init.d script.
>
> What I want to do is allow one user on my server to start/stop the
> shoutcast server. At the moment I can only do it using sudo.
>
> Any tip?
>
> Regards
>
>