How to grant sudo rights only to specific script files?

Question

I would like a user to have sudo rights (without password check) to a couple of shell scripts under a specific directory (in my case, /usr/local/tomcat7/bin), and to nowhere else. What's the simplest way to accomplish this?

Something like this in /etc/sudoers didn't seem to work:

jsmith ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/tomcat7/bin

Answer 1

I think you are almost there. put a / at the end of your directory spec

jsmith ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/tomcat7/bin/

From the sudoers man page

A directory is a fully qualified path name ending in a '/'. When you specify a directory in a Cmnd_List, the user will be able to run any file within that directory (but not in any subdirectories therein).

Answer 2

Add a slash '/' to the end of the path.

jsmith ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/tomcat7/bin/