su -c <command> without password?

[stikboy]

Is it possible to disable asking for root's password for only certain things? I would like to be able to add:
su -c dvdstyler
su -c k3b
to my fluxbox menu and have them start without needing the password. I would use sudo, but growisofs does not like sudo and I don't want to disable it for everything for obvious security issues

[DislexiK]

stikboy,

You can use suauth to do kind of the thing you want to do, it allows you to limit who can SU and who they can SU to, it also allows you to let them SU with or without a password, or to SU with there password

The basics are:

create the file /etc/suauth with:

<UID To SU To>:<UID To SU From>:ACTIONS

For your example:

<root>:<username>:<NOPASS>

# man suauth

for more detils

Regards

DislexiK
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[stikboy]

Thanks for the reply:) I didn't know about suauth

That will work, but it does only limit by user, and not user/app being run, which was what I'm looking for (trying to remain as secure as possible) but since it's my pc and no one else has access, I could settle for this if no one has any way to limit by commands like sudo

[pjp]

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[outspoken]

what is the difference between sudo and suauth? ive always used sudo for such things. (like k3b since now root it required to burn)

so in my fluxbox menu i have:

[Paulten]

My way :

vi /etc/pam.d/su
add :
auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_wheel.so use_uid trust

Users in the group wheel does not need to type password when typing "su"

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