Allow normal user to run root stuff.

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Hello,
I would like to allow normal users to run some root scripts (e.g the sound subsytem [alsa]) in cases sound is stuck.
What is the best way to allow this to happen in opensuse? There are many ways to do that (and I do not know how to use any of them :P) and I am not sure which one is more suse all right.

I would like to thank you in advance for your help.
Best Regards
Alex.

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sudo. It’s not more SUSE or less SUSE, it works for Linux (and other Unix/Unix-like OSes), so what you learn is usable elsewhere.

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That’s true… but how to configure sudo in suse ? Is it possible to do that with YaST?

Best Regards

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I’ve always done it with visudo from the CLI.

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Maybe you should start YaST and at least look around which different areas of use it has. When you would have done this, you would have found that in YaST > Security and Users there is an item sudo. Be adventurous and look what it can do for you.

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Thanks for the update. So I have tried the Yast way. I have managed to make /sbin/ifconfig for example to work for my normal user. I couldn’t though to make ifconfig to work directly for the normal user.

I do not know how to do that .

Could you please help me with that?

Best Regards

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The respective service / application still has to be started via ‘sudo’. If you’d like to start it within normal user interaction, you’d have to configure the rights of (for example) /sbin/ifconfig - which is a way I do not recommend, since file permissions are one of the reasons why Linux is such a secure system. One shouldn’t fiddle around with that.

Actually sudo does not allow any user to run root-only applications, but…

…for example ‘root’. ‘sudo’ is used to let users run certain applications without the need to share (for example) roots password with them.