How to start a process by another group using sudo

Question

I wanted to start one process as a non root user with a group (non-root) by sudo. I added the line below in /etc/sudoers

xyz ALL =  (xyz:abc) NOPASSWD: <cmd>

But I am always getting the error below,

Sorry, user xyz is not allowed to execute '<cmd>' as xyz:abc on SC-1.

Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

You want the group to have root permissions or only one user?

If you want only one user, add this to the sudoers file, after User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL:

xyz ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

xyz being the user. This always works for me (remember to log out and in)

If you want an entire group to gain root permission I can't help you.