[distcc] Allowing non-root users to kill and start distccd

Dan Sturtevant sturtx at gmail.com
Mon Jun 5 13:58:25 GMT 2006


> I would suggest that rather than making distcc setuid, you should just
> use sudo instead and just restrict which commands people can run.  Also
> allow access to a shell script which will change this.  It'll be more
> secure and probably easier to write.
>
> --
> Martin
>


Martin,

Just to make sure I understand you, are you suggetsing that I give the users
sudo access to execute the /etc/init.d/distccd script?

Thanks,
Dan Sturtevant
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