Mailing List Archive: Installing sudo (on a Juniper box)

Installing sudo (on a Juniper box)

Jan 6, 2004, 7:36 AM

Post #1 of 4 (932 views)

Hi,

To avoid having to give the root password to too many people in our
organisation I'm thinking of installing sudo (http://www.sudo.ws/) on our
Junipers. This is for upgrading the removable media with new software,
which requires root access for the dd command. Before I go and mess around
with boxes in the lab, has anyone had any experience with doing that.

Or is there a better way to give root access for one command without handing
out the root password to every person who needs to run the command?

Cheers,

Alastair Galloway

Installing sudo (on a Juniper box) [ In reply to ]

phil at juniper

Jan 6, 2004, 9:00 AM

Post #2 of 4 (910 views)

Permalink

Alastair Galloway writes:
>This is for upgrading the removable media with new software,
>which requires root access for the dd command.

I'll open a PR to add a command to do this.

Thanks,
Phil

Installing sudo (on a Juniper box) [ In reply to ]

dr at cluenet

Jan 6, 2004, 9:42 AM

Post #3 of 4 (904 views)

Permalink

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:00:21AM -0500, Phil Shafer wrote:
> Alastair Galloway writes:
> >This is for upgrading the removable media with new software,
> >which requires root access for the dd command.
>
> I'll open a PR to add a command to do this.

This is great, preferrably from CLI.

As a temporary measure, the OP might fiddle with the file permissions
on /dev/rad3. If truly everyone should be able to write to the PCMCIA
flash cards, a "chmod 666 /dev/rad3" should do.

Best regards,
Daniel

Installing sudo (on a Juniper box) [ In reply to ]

phil at juniper

Jan 6, 2004, 1:37 PM

Post #4 of 4 (911 views)

Permalink

Daniel Roesen writes:
>> I'll open a PR to add a command to do this.
>This is great, preferrably from CLI.

Definitely. Our goal is to keep the user in the plush, cushy
environment of the CLI. I mean, how can you live with dabbrev-expand?

;^)

Thanks,
Phil