[mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

[Piers Kittel]

Hate to answer to my own email.  Yup the answer's in the sudo man 
pages... can limit the user to invoke one command only using the 
/etc/sudoers file.

I'm going to boil my head now.... :)

Thanks very much for everyone's help.

Cheers - Piers

Piers Kittel wrote:
> Heh.  Fair enough.
> 
> OK playing the devil's advocate now...
> 
> If I disable the need of the password, isn't that a lot more dangerous 
> than just enabling anyone to use halt - I mean, now anyone can be "root" 
> without needing a password?  Someone malciously invoking halt can be 
> annoying but at the end of the day, it just turns off the computer 
> without destroying anything?
> 
> Also if I pass the password, wouldn't it be viewable in mythtv setup?  I 
> mean, if someone browses my setup screens (unlikely I guess, but bear 
> with me) and spots the password and goes "Ooooh!" ?
> 
> I'm sure the answers to those 2 are in the man pages for sudo I guess? :)
> 
> Cheers - Piers
> 
> Jason W. wrote:
> 
>> You obviously haven't read "man sudo" then. :)
>>
>> You can
>> 1) disable the need for password
>> 2) pass the password in on standard in (in the command string).
>>
>> Sudo is the easiest (and safest) way to do what you want.
>>
>> P.S. you will also want to read "man visudo".
>>
>> Piers Kittel wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah thought of that, but don't you need to type in a password anyway?
>>>
>>> Cheers - Piers
>>>
>>> Kim Wall wrote:
>>>
>>>> Piers Kittel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Just need to figure out how to power off the computer as non-root ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> man sudo  :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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