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Hi all,

I have written one perl script to create and then change ownership of a folder in Linux platform.Folder got created ,but got error as :chown: changing ownership of folder:Operatio n not permitted

Since this perl script has only local user privilege ,it is not allowing to change ownership of folder.If i run script as root ,it is working fine.

But i want to run this script as local user.Is there any way to give chown privilege to local user.
I got to know that by editing Linux sudoers File , we can give limited root privileges to local user.

Please help me on how to edit sudoers File to give this privilege ...or any other method is there?
Mar 23 '10 #1
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RonB
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See: man sudoers
http://linux.die.net/man/5/sudoers
http://linux.die.net/man/8/visudo
Mar 23 '10 #2

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