[ale] make some apps/scripts run as root

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

I installed using sudo both Websphere7 and MyEclipseIDE to /opt.... folders.

Now its allworking fine.  I want to be able to be able to allow regular user
to run the stuff.

Is it possible that way or, I need to set some mask or umask or change
permissions etc., ?

-Narahari

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's the way it works in Linuxland as well. Admin installs
> application and users have access to use it.
>
> The vm stuff will be static - i.e. a single user login unless you have
> some ldap/ad stuff setup inside the vm.
>
> So you create a vm and install as root the apps you need setting stuff
> to run on boot as needed. Now create a simple user inthe vm with a
> disposable password, login and verify that user can do what is
> required. Then you shutdown and copy the vm space. Each developer then
> has their own vmware space and they import the vm you made to their
> space. Once they start your vm, the switch into it, login as the
> preset user and they're back to work.
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
> <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here is what I want to do.
> >
> > VM = VMWare Server
> > VM Inside = Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit
> >
> > I want to install Websphere 7 inside the VM.
> > Then I want to install the MyEclipse IDE.
> >
> > Then I want to kick start the WebSphere server from inside the IDE (it
> does
> > this anyways).
> >
> > Once it is all up and runing I plan to distribute the VM to our
> developers,
> > so we dont have to worry about configuration of IDE's to  new folks.
> >
> > If this can be accomplished as a reg user, I am all for it.
> >
> > I thougt that if I do this as superuser then it might be easy to install
> > once and every one gets it.
> > What equivalnce I am looking for is, in Windoze world the LAN admin
> installs
> > Word as an admin and the next thing you know all users who
> > login to that box get Word as an application and thats what I am trying
> to
> > accomplish.
> >
> > -Narahari
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 14:34 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> >> > How do I run a few scripts like my IDE launcher, the Websphere server
> >> > etc., to run as sudo aka root without prompting me for the password
> >> > each time ?
> >>
> >> As Mike W. pointed out, there is little need to run such things as the
> >> superuser.
> >>
> >> If you need to start a dæmon that needs to listen on a privileged port,
> >> there are a few ways that you can do this.  You can grant the approriate
> >> capability to the user account that runs the software (or to the
> >> software itself, using filesystem capabilities), though this is not a
> >> universally supported method of operation (why, I'm not sure).
> >>
> >> The other means would be to have a small (and I mean *tiny*) program
> >> that runs setuid root and does ABSOLUTELY nothing other than to acquire
> >> the listening socket, drop root privileges permanently, and then exec
> >> the target program.  That might require a patch to the target program so
> >> that it can take the listening socket file descriptor either on a
> >> well-known file descriptor or via a command line option that can pass in
> >> the fd number.
> >>
> >> There are more clever means to do these sorts of things, as well.  They
> >> are, however, left as an exercise to the reader.
> >>
> >> > Also how do you start any gui app minimized, I need to run VMWare
> >> > tools as root and minimized.
> >>
> >> That depends on the toolkit that the program in question is built to run
> >> with.  For GTK+ based software, I am not aware of any such
> >> functionality.
> >>
> >>        --- Mike
> >>
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