dear all, based on sandip's excellent suggestion on using sudo instead of setuid, i read through the man pages of sudo, sudoers, visudo.
*** i then created the following entries in the sudoers file, using visudo: # sudoers file. # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file. # # Host alias specification # User alias specification User_Alias FIRESTARTERS = niyam # Cmnd alias specification # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL FIRESTARTERS =(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/firestarter *** that second-last line, root ALL=(ALL) ALL generates an error in visudo when i quit. but does not generate any error if i comment out the last line. what could be wrong. meanwhile, have tested and verified separately that /usr/bin/firestarter will launch firestarter after prompting me normally for the root password. so once the above sudoers file can be edited correctly, i suppose i just have to add the relevant sudo command in rc.local . . . which brings me to point two: i decided to test the rc.local file with a command that works fine anywhere. so i added the simple command 'kmail' in the rc.local file, and logged out and logged-in, and even rebooted and logged in, but kmail did not auto-run. any suggestions? LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
