Adding apt permissions only

[liverpoolfc]

I'd like to give a user the rights to use apt (or Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center) without giving them full sudo rights. Is this possible?

[Lars Noodén]

I'd like to give a user the rights to use APT (or Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center) without giving them full sudo rights. Is this possible?

Yes. That is what sudo is for. Edit /etc/sudoers so that you give that group permission to run APT.

%maintainers ALL = (ALL) /usr/bin/apt-get update, /usr/bin/apt-get upgrade, /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade

[liverpoolfc]

Thanks, that's what I was looking for. I thought sudoers was just a list of users that could use sudo, I didn't realize it had that much detail

[Lars Noodén]

I didn't realize it had that much detail

You can even get much more complex and add pattern matching. sudo is a really very, very powerful tool.

If you want to see a little more, here is a presentation on sudo.