[K12OSN] Re: Success! Run Fl_TeacherTool without root password

[Sudev Barar]

On 10/3/05, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/05, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was wondering, is there a way to exclude the teacher from showing up
> > in the user list when using this method?
> >
>
> I also noticed this. If you notice on my website I stated to become
> root with 'su' not 'su -' when launching TT from a thin client. But
> this only works if you HAVE the root password. I don't know how to
> setup sudo to accomplish this.

First su -
Then visudo
Go to the bottom of the file and add the line:
%ttgroup ALL=/path/to/program NOPASSWD

Here ttgroup is the group where all the teachers are members.
The visudo file fairly well gives ideas about how to add users for all
or specific commands.
HTH
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux