Giving permission to a particular user to start/stop a particular service [closed]

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  •  01-10-2022
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Question

I want to give permission to a normal user to start/stop a particular service only. Then how can i tweak the sudoers file to achieve this?

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Solution

Add this entry in the sudoers file

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/Servicename *

If you are using php_exec, 

apache ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/servicename *

Apache is the user who runs the webserver. It is www-data in some OS.

Also dont forgot to comment out 

#Defaults    requiretty

in sudoers file.

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