Shutting down a firewall remotely via a password less script

[ei_Gelb_Geek (Kevin)]

@rlkoshak

The entire scenario is shady as hell and i’d have my credentials revoked if I ever suggested anything remotely like this scenario professionally.

Now its your turn!

@rlkoshak

How to Debug

Some easy steps:

• If the command or the called script calls sudo , make sure openhab is a member of sudoers and is configured with NOPASSWORD

@rlkoshak

Using sudo but failing to add the openhab user to sudoers with NOPASSWORD. If you are on the raspbian probably the easiest thing to do is run sudo visudo and copy what is there for the pi user and change “pi” to “openhab”

How to solve Exec binding problems

One of the most common problems I help people with on this forum is dealing with the Exec binding. So I’m writing this post so I can reference it later. Background When openHAB is installed in the automated way (i.e. via apt-get) an openhab user is created and the service runs under that user. The openhab user has the following attributes: no shell so one cannot log in or su to this user limited rights not a member of sudoers has a home directory in /var/lib/openhab (or /var/lib/openhab2) has…