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[Question] Allowing other users to use mintinstall (software manager) without needing the root password? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 21 hours ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Howdy,

I've been trying to figure this out for a couple of days now. Essentially I am setting up a loaner laptop that uses active directory. This laptop is using Linux mint 22.3. I want users to be able to install apps, but only from the the gui software manager and apt install in the terminal. I don't want the other users to have any other sudo privileges. I managed to configure it to allow a non admin user from within the domain to use apt in the terminal to install packages, but for some reason it doesn't let me do it in the gui software manager without the root password.

I used visudo to edit the sudoers folder. I tried different varations of this line: %domain\ users@MY-Domain.com ALL=(ALL:ALL) /usr/bin/apt-get, /usr/bin/apt, /usr/bin/mintinstall, /usr/share/software-manager

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

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[–] 6 points 19 hours ago* (1 child)

I'd suggest a different approach. Instead of trying to lock down the loaner, which probably is going to be difficult to do against someone with physical possession anyway, just make a drive image of the loaner before giving it to them. When you get it back, just restore the image.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 hours ago

    Most of the people using the loaner are not technically inclined at all. I just want to make it more difficult for them to accidentally break it and not know that they did. I do already have a custom ISO that I use for it, so a drive image won't be an issue, but if they have important data on there and break it it'll be more difficult to recover, so I'd rather prevent it as much as I can.

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