Is there a good way in Linux to make an admin user with unlimited powers within a limited part of the filesystem tree?
I want to make a bunch of (automated, not real people) user accounts all in one folder and have a privileged script that can read all their data regardless of permissions. Ideally, I could shell in as this user to administrate, but just extending the privilege to a script would be fine.
Currently I only know how to do this by running the script as root. Is there a better way?
Disclaimer : I am not sure if this is the right way to solve this,
You can add a user to the sudo group, this will allow users to run things as if they were root for example
sudo apt install <program>
you then enter your user password
<program> is installed
It is probably a better alternative to using su (or su -), which then needs you to give people the root password.
