How to create a "sudo" user who can start/stop/restart tomcat6 service ?

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Issue

  • Is there any way to start, stop and restart tomcat6 service as normal user?
  • How to create a "sudo" user who can start/stop/restart tomcat6 service?
  • Our developers would like to start / stop Tomcat server by themselves without depending on system administrators with root privileges to do it for them. Is that possible?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5
    • Tomcat 6

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