Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:32:18 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Istv=C3=A1n?= <leccine@gmail.com> Cc: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>, Pieter de Boer <pieter@thelostparadise.com> Subject: Re: tcpdump -z Message-ID: <b9de3a5a374944a6b6d3ad8605bab663@localhost> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikgbBzUmd0fBaGfQQqR_SFXA82yhBk0WAffX-Si@mail.gmail.com> References: <slrni7eu1h.21lb.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <4C77A267.10102@thelostparadise.com> <AANLkTim1frPvChMJfDLnHe6LW3HnR=AWeYcCsf-tx3V-@mail.gmail.com> <5d88fc9506514cabc7390e66a1f9872f@localhost> <AANLkTikgbBzUmd0fBaGfQQqR_SFXA82yhBk0WAffX-Si@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:27:07 +0100, István <leccine@gmail.com> wrote: > Well to be honest i don't see any case when i want to give sudo+tcpdump > access to any user on my box. And those who are admins/roots anyway the "su > -" just works perfectly and they can run tcpdump. > Well, that wasn't an answer to my question or the claim of Andy. In fact, if you need to give access to some root-only binaries to a normal user, sudo(8) is the way to go. With "su -" you would allow full root-access, even though you might just want to allow specific commands to an unprivileged user. so. ehm. no! In fact, I would suggest to disable root, so that su - doesn't work at all. ./Marian
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