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For one specific user I want to be able to restart Apache. This user does have sudo privileges and I could run sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload, but I want to include this restart script in a git post-receive hook. So this would prompt for the password and fail. So the question is: what is the proper way to allow this user to restart apache, without requiring sudo? I want to restrict option to only restarting Apache, and only this particular user.

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You should consider using sudo with the NOPASSWD config.

See man 5 sudoers

Ex:

Host_Alias     LOCAL=192.168.0.1
user_foobar    LOCAL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/apache2
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You should consider NOPASSWD extremely carefully, though. – Shadur Mar 19 '12 at 8:53
Sure, don't use that for all commands. Never something like LOCAL=NOPASSWD: /bin/bash – sputnick Mar 19 '12 at 13:25
Works as a charm, thanks! – user Mar 29 '12 at 22:55
U're welcome ;) – sputnick Mar 30 '12 at 0:28

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