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Created February 20, 2014 12:21
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How to add sudo permission to a particular command for a user
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How to add sudo permission to a particular command for a user
Following example illustrates how to add apache restart access to the user nih
Login as root user
Then open visudo by typing in
visudo
Add the command to the end of the file
#username# ALL= NOPASSWD: #command#
nih ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/httpd restart
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