My company uses medical billing software that constantly causes orphaned processes. Upper management wants a standard user to have the ability to kill. I have written a menu driven vi shell. The problem is the user I have setup (added user to the system group) is only able to kill his/her own processes. Is it possible to give a user access to kill any processes without giving them root or command prompt access? Is it possible to use the su command in a vi shell script and have it login and logoff the user without them having the root password?
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Kill any user processes without being logged in as root.
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