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#1

I was wondering how I could make it so that a user could only use admin privilages on certain programs? Would I do this by editing the sudoers file? Also, is there a way to get visudo to use nano instead of vim (vim is really confusing for me)? I am wanting to make it so that the group (student) can only run Synaptic, Add/Remove Programs, and Ubiquity (so it can be installed). Is this possible?

#2

Yes, it is explained very well in the sudoers man page. I can't explain it any better, so I'm sorry, but you got to RTFM. The man page is good.

Cheers,

Herman

#3

smartboyathome said: I was wondering how I could make it so that a user could only use admin privilages on certain programs? Would I do this by editing the sudoers file? Also, is there a way to get visudo to use nano instead of vim (vim is really confusing for me)? I am wanting to make it so that the group (student) can only run Synaptic, Add/Remove Programs, and Ubiquity (so it can be installed). Is this possible?

Hmm. I had thought that visudo in Ubuntu/Debian used nano by default. Anyway, you can force it to use nano easily:

export EDITOR=nano && sudo visudo
#4

HermanAB said: Yes, it is explained very well in the sudoers man page. I can't explain it any better, so I'm sorry, but you got to RTFM. The man page is good.

Cheers,

Herman

Ok, thanks, I looked it up, and it does tell me how to do this. :)

Also, thanks p_quarels for that command, it works.