[ale] make some apps/scripts run as root

[Jim Kinney]

Websphere is a service. It should be run from a startup script in
/etc/init.d (see man chkconfig). The normal install will do it for you
and all you have to do is start the service.

The ide will require a PATH change most likely or at the least a path
to the runable binary. If the binary is not already 755 then sudo
chmod 755 foo will fix that.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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