I'm on AIX. I have triggered an infinite loop process (to keep looking for input file availability for further process). At present only I can kill the process.
In case my colleague wants to kill the process for any reason, how do I provide permission to others to kill the process?
Currently it does not permit killing someone else's process.
Its not that easy ( doing something simple...), normally you would lauch that sort of stuff using a share account that is not personnel, local to that box that the ones who can use it have the password and so can do a su <oper-UID> and e.g. kill, restart etc...
Make a logic inside your script if a certain user touches a file in $SOMEDIR/stop.file the process you started will stop looping and exit gracefully.
This way you can avoid sudo and privilege escalations.
This may open other holes if not done carefully however (who is allowed to create files there?)