is shell user allowed to sudo ?

Hi All

Just a quick question hopefully. Up until now I've been serving simple websites using ISPConfig3, however a user has asked for shell access including sudo now.

The user asked me:Can u give me ssh access to the linux server ? and also enable me to create shell users in ispconfig?. Actually i want to enable some apache modules (like url rewrite) on sites?


So when I create a shell user with chroot shell jailkit, they just land in a blank directory and can then do a cd .. to get the root of their site.

Running sudo however gives

bash: sudo: command not found

Is this normal behaviour ??

Does the user really need shell/sudo to achieve what he is trying to do ? or is there another way of doing this ?

Any help much appreciated.

and seasons' greetings and happy holidays to All !!

 

You must install the sudo package. Which distribution do you use?

Thanks, I wish the same to you!

 

Thanks for the reply falko.

I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. When I login as root I can run sudo no problems. So does the user need to install sudo package separately ?

 

Running into this same problem myself. Just seen the post above and changed the user to non-jailkit.

I want to do it this way for two reasons:
1: So that most of the time, I won't have to mess around with passwords, just use putty, pageant and a shortcut - double-click and I'm in.
But I want to also be able to sudo nginx restart or sudo bash if need be.

Sudo exists for the root user, but not for my shell user. How can I enable this?

I've tried symlinking and copying sudo to the user's bin file, as the root user to the ispc user, but then I get "sudo: error while loading shared libraries: libutil.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"

I thought it was good practice to ssh in as a non-root user then sudo. Am I doing something wrong here?