Root sudo? (was Re: Cron Job Failure)

[Mike Burger]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Allen Chen wrote:

> Mike Burger wrote:
>
>> On Tue, April 26, 2005 12:50 pm, Allen Chen said:
>> 
>>> Hi, all
>>> 
>>> I got another problem with RedHat 9.  The sudo doesn't work any more
>>> with root. It hangs. But it still works with other users.
>>> 
>>> I don't if anybody has the same issue or not.
>>> 
>>> Allen.
>>> 
>> 
>> First, it's poor form to snarf another topic/thread, and start up a new
>> question that's unrelated to the previous.
>> 
>> Having said that, as I'm no longer running RHL9, I can't answer on that
>> front...however, I've never run into this.
>> 
>> Realizing, up front, that this doesn't answer your question, I do have
>> ask...why would you bother using sudo as root?  The whole point of sudo is
>> to be able to run commands as root...if you're already root, why would you
>> need to use sudo?
>> 
>> 
> I'm not using sudo with root. The problem is that the php script forks a 
> process using sudo.
> Such as the php script:
> <?
>
>> exec("sudo /usr/local/bin/setpassword $uid $pass");
>
> ?>
>
> Thanks any way.

Seems to me, then, that you should have "apache" as the user in the 
sudoers file, now root...httpd, and by extension, PHP, run as user apache.
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