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I would like to run few commands such as stop or start web server as a root user. How do I allow a normal user to run these commands as root?
With the help of utility called chattr, you can changes the file attributes on a Linux second extended file system. The operator + causes the selected attributes to be added to the existing attributes of the files; – causes them to be removed; and = causes them to be the only attributes that the files have.
