SUDO permission to install RPM

[z_haseeb]

is it possible that we can allow a non-root user to install a specific package. for example I only want to allow a sudo permission to a non-root user to install redis-7.2.4-1.el8.remi.x86_64.rpm

[jlehtone]

Would it not be easier to simply install the package?

[TrevorH]

I'd agree. But to answer the original question, yes, but then that means that user could conceivably create and package their own nefarious package called that and then use sudo to install it. So a sudo entry like

dodgyuser ALL=(ALL) yum install redis-7.2.4-1.el8.remi.x86_64.rpm

means they could then go off and create their own package named that and use sudo to install it. The package could then give them root access.

A safer way would be to install the remi repo and then allow the user access to

dodgyuser ALL=(ALL) yum install redis, yum update redis