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I may not have explained myself too well so apologies for that. I have updated the question to include more detail.

hshah
– hshah

2018-10-30 17:34:45 +00:00
Commented Oct 30, 2018 at 17:34
Having (unprivileged) users sudo to the jbossuer account, only to then run a command over ssh seems like an unnecessarily complex solution. Why not just let them ssh directly? The method I outlined above would still let you restrict which users can access which target machines, and also limit them to only running the command to check the status of the process. In other words, you only need to set up their accounts following steps 1 and 2 of my answer, and you can ignore 3 altogether because it seems to serve no real purpose.

guzzijason
– guzzijason

2018-10-30 22:25:19 +00:00
Commented Oct 30, 2018 at 22:25
Unfortunately I'm trying to cater for ease of use and stupidity all at the same time. By getting this working as I see it in my head, once in the script everything is explained to users, I have the flexibility of adding more if required to the same menus/options, and it covers new users in the future. Whilst this may be complicated for me right now, it will work out for the best in the long run.

hshah
– hshah

2018-10-31 01:22:50 +00:00
Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 1:22

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