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How do I add the following to the sudoers file in RHEL5?

daemon ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/php /var/www/batch.php

Thanks :)

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    Are you sure giving daemon full rights to run php as root is sensible?
    – Cian
    Aug 31, 2009 at 14:21
  • Cian: Ya, that too, I just wasn't in the mood to go there ;-)
    – Kyle Brandt
    Aug 31, 2009 at 14:27

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Use the visudo command for safe editing of the sudoers file, as root or with sudo:

visudo -f /etc/sudoers

If you don't know vi, you can use whatever editor you want by setting the EDITOR environment variable (assuming $VISUAL is not set), for example as root:

export EDITOR=/bin/nano
visudo -f /etc/sudoers

Although, if you don't know vi basics, maybe you shouldn't be editing your sudoers file :-)

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  • That's "sudo visudo..."
    – Dennis Williamson
    Aug 31, 2009 at 16:41
  • Dennis: "as root or with sudo:"
    – Kyle Brandt
    Sep 1, 2009 at 11:22
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Literally:

echo 'daemon ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/php /var/www/batch.php' | sudo tee -a /etc/sudoers

Personally I'd recommend Kyle Brandt's solution.

[Edit] I've added sudo to the example as per Dennis Williamson's suggestion.

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  • You're probably going to want a "sudo" in there somewhere.
    – Dennis Williamson
    Aug 31, 2009 at 16:40
  • Dennis: It would just be: bash -c "echo '....' >> /etc/sudoers"
    – Kyle Brandt
    Aug 31, 2009 at 17:53

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