From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 9 17:09:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA19666 for security-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19639 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA05135 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 20:08:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 20:08:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-SECURITY-L Subject: sudo Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What are people's feelings towards the "sudo" utility? Is it really all that usefull, or does it just open up a lot of potential avenues of attack and abuse? Some of our co-located customers want to have it installed so they can do some root-privileged stuff, instead of getting us to do it all the time (even though that's what they pay us to do). -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"