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Sudoers Cmnd_Alias Grant

Security & TLS · medium · solved in-browser (no VM needed) · 3 tiered hints

Write /etc/sudoers.d/services, a syntactically valid sudoers drop-in that defines a Cmnd_Alias named SERVICES covering /usr/bin/systemctl start nginx and /usr/bin/systemctl stop nginx, then grants the %ops group passwordless use of that alias. Use a 'Cmnd_Alias SERVICES = ...' definition and a '%ops ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: SERVICES' grant. (Authored config, graded structurally — the engine isn't run here.)

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