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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:32:18 +0100
From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de>
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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