Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 15:41:08 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org> Cc: Roop Nanuwa <roop@gw.carpoolbc.com>, Michael Chong <MichaelC@fool.com>, "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: sudo [was: Re: your mail] Message-ID: <nospam-3a2f230a9f0b7f7@maxim.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012062249340.1353-100000@sherman.spotnet.org> of Wed, 06 Dec 2000 22:59:24 CST References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012062249340.1353-100000@sherman.spotnet.org>
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David Talkington wrote: > sudo definitely helps if it's carefully administered, but it still > grants root access to a file, This is wrong -- sudo will grant access with whatever user privileges you wish to grant, maybe root and maybe some other user. It all depends on the way you set it up. It can also allow a selected set of users to run just one command with some specific set of arguments. It is quite a flexible tool, although that comes at a price -- somewhat difficult syntax in the config file for non-trivial tricks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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